Time for Europhiles to divide and rule
So, in the last few weeks Jeremy Corbyn has shown his true Euro-Sceptic colours, issuing a three-line whip to order his MPs to vote in favour of the government's bill to trigger Article 50...
Category: Politics
Why couldn’t Dean Saunders get a secure hospital place?
Last Friday an inquest jury gave its verdict in the case of Dean Saunders, who killed himself in Chelmsford Prison in January 2016 having been remanded there having injured his father who tried to...
Jill Saward, the Press and civil liberties
Last week Jill Saward (pronounced Say-ward), best known for having been the victim of the notorious "Ealing Vicarage" rape attack in 1986 in which she was raped and subjected to other sexual assaults and...
Does Sleaford really matter much more than Richmond?
Why Sleaford matters more than Richmond – CapX Last week there were two by-elections in the UK triggered by resignations of MPs. One was in Richmond Park, in which Zac Goldsmith had resigned from...
Why ban National Action?
Today the Home Secretary announced that she intends to proscribe the Far Right group National Action, which she describes as "a racist, anti-Semitic and homophobic organisation". An organisation can be proscribed if the home...
So, about those Democrat infiltrators …
Yesterday, someone posted a link to the blog by the author of the Dilbert cartoons, alleging among other things that violence at Trump rallies had mostly been caused by infiltrators from Clinton's campaign, who...
Heathrow: No free ride for Zac Goldsmith
Today the government announced its preferred option for airport expansion in the south-east of England, and as had been expected, that was a third runway at Heathrow in west London. The other main option...
What is the real “education gap” in politics?
How the education gap is tearing politics apart | David Runciman | Politics | The Guardian This was the Guardian's "long read" Wednesday before last, and it explores how education levels are becoming a...
No, we do not need to act on that referendum
In the months since the referendum on leaving the EU, opinion seems to have hardened on the matter of whether there should be any question of leaving, given the 51.9% vote in favour. In...
Modi should have been Keith Vaz’s undoing
Last Sunday some of the tabloids led with a story about Keith Vaz, the Labour MP for Leicester East, paying male prostitutes, asking them to bring 'poppers' and offering to cover the cost of...
Apricot kernels
Earlier today I was browsing the mentions of Kate Granger, the doctor best known for setting up the "Hello, my name is…" campaign aimed at encouraging doctors, nurses and other health professionals to introduce...
So, where’s your inspiring leader?
This week, as the Tory leadership election gets underway and a bunch of five ghastly right-wing, anti-immigrant, mostly Islamophobic extremists compete to be the next prime minister, people who are in or more inclined...
Brexit: A misguided vote
So, on Friday morning we woke up to the news that Britain had voted narrowly (51.9%) in favour of leaving the European Union, with Scotland overwhelmingly against and Northern Ireland also mostly against, but...
What happened to the child’s best interests?
Last Wednesday, Ben Butler, a convicted armed robber and serially violent offender from Sutton in south London, was convicted of murdering his six-year-old daughter Ellie in 2013 and sentenced to life in prison, with...
Appeal to Muslims on Brexit
Recently I've seen a couple of articles online appealing to Muslims to vote for Britain to leave the EU in this Thursday's referendum. The claims are that the EU is anti-Muslim, that it could...
Brexiters are lying
Coming home the other day over a flyover on the A3, I saw a poster from Vote Leave, the official campaign for Britain to leave the EU, which proclaimed "Turkey (population 76 million) is...
Who flies an English flag?
There’ll always be an England … and Labour must learn to love it by Tristram Hunt (from the Guardian) Tristram Hunt, in this article which appeared on the Guardian website Sunday before last, argues...
Make corruption history?
Who remembers the slogan "Make Poverty History"? It used to be found on banners on streets, on pamphlets and on the top corners of websites. I remember Bob Geldof trying to get a crowd...
No, Labour can’t “just win”
One of the candidates standing for the Labour party's National Executive Committee (NEC), having replaced Ken Livingstone on the centre-left slate, is a lady called Rhea Wolfson, who came to my attention today when...
Sexist trolls shouldn’t be able to ruin a petition
Update 2: I've run a search for the phrases "kuenssberg whore" and "kuenssberg bitch" on Twitter, using both TweetBot (which searches recent tweets) and TweetDeck (which searches all tweets). I really advise that you...