Opinion

Over recent weeks, a number of prominent public figures have publicly launched verbal attacks on the religion of Islam, causing controversy, discontentment and debate across Europe. The most high-profile of these attacks came from prominent Dutch politician Geert Wilders, who in June of this year announced that he would be a hosting a Prophet Muhammad cartoon competition at his party’s parliamentary offices. Wilders has been known for having called for mosques to be shut down, all Muslim immigrants to be...

It's happened. People are finally taking the risks of Brexit seriously. In Europe, politicians are talking about giving Britain the chance to stay in the EU. Prominent Irish media have urged their government to help Britain by extending the Article 50 deadline. And the Independent has launched a petition for a second referendum, garnering nearly 350,00 signatures. Politicians feel free to talk openly about another vote, and publicly hope that Brexit can be reversed. Accusations of being 'remoaners' have largely...

The Conservatives have no way out of their own Brexit trap, Robert Shrimsley wrote in the Financial Times this week. Either they appease powerful party members crying betrayal over her attempts to shift negotiations into soft Brexit mode or she goes hard in spite of the well documented repercussions. It's Spam for her country on the one hand or an egg in the face from her disfranchised colleagues on the other. In Shrimsley's words, it would be funny if we...

A British daughter has written this astonishing open letter to her mother about Brexit. It doesn't pull any punches.

This week Matt Hancock answered his first Parliamentary Questions as Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, and discussed the responsibilities of his new role with the Select Committee. He reiterated his deep personal commitment to the health service – but made no such detailed declarations about the other half of his title, beyond confirming that the Green Paper on social care reform is still expected this autumn. We treasure our NHS, and rightly so, but our crumbling social...

"Keeping Jeremy Corbyn away from No. 10 is an essential national endeavour" the Daily Telegraph thunders. The reliably Conservative newspaper took some time off from trumpeting Brexit to once again attack the Labour leader. These attacks are becoming more hyperbolic by the day. The Telegraph is trying to convince its readers that stopping Corbyn is like fighting Hitler during the Blitz - essential for national survival. This derangement about Corbyn's Labour is emerging everywhere on the right. Theresa May warned...

The Conservatives have been labelled con artists after running up mountains of debt in spite of austerity cuts at the same time as the rich significantly increase their wealth. Since the recession Britain's wealthiest have seen their net worth more than double while poverty has gripped the nation elsewhere. Food bank use has reached the highest rate on record as austerity-induced benefit cuts fail to cover basic costs. According to Shelter the number of 'homeless but working' families has risen...

In 2015 ahead of the Labour leadership election Jeremy Corbyn was a 200-1 outsider on the Betfair Exchange to win the contest. Without enough nominations to make the ballot the Islington North MP was written off by most of the media. His shock win sent shockwaves across the political spectrum that continued to reverberate as he fended off a leadership bid in 2017, took away the Tory majority in 2018 and guided Labour into the number one spot in the polls...

Is it possible to die from cringing? Because I fear that fate may await former Tory small business minister Andrew Griffiths after a Sunday tabloid published a cache of his truly grim sexts to two barmaids. Married Griffiths sent over 2,000 messages (how?!) in just three weeks to the two women he came across online. Let’s just say the texts were grubby, he called himself Daddy, he liked it rough and they’re all on Google. Whenever a sex scandal of...