Opinion

Rumours that Labour will become the referendum party have gained a lot of mainstream traction of late, and there’s a good reason why. Despite Jeremy Corbyn and other senior colleagues being openly sceptical of the merits of a so-called "confirmatory" referendum, the opportunity to squash the Tories in both European parliamentary and council elections could be too much to pass up for the party’s top brass. Speaking in Brussels, one Conservative MEP told the Business Insider’s Adam Payne that they...

The UK has been granted its second extension to the Article 50 deadline averting a no-deal Brexit

News that government cuts to disability benefits for people with multiple sclerosis (MS) will cost more than it will save shows that we have reached peak Tory after almost ten years of Conservative rule. Proving that they’re a party who are happy to cut off their nose to spite their face research by the MS Society found cuts to Personal Independence Payments (PIP) planned over the next three years could end up costing the taxpayer almost £10 million in increased...

Brian Cox said it has become "clear that the Conservative Party are the problem" after only a handful of Tories supported any of the options voted upon in parliament last night. Backbenchers took charge of the Brexit impasse in parliament again yesterday as the cabinet abstained from voting in indicative votes they tried in vain to stop. This time they came closer than ever to breakthrough with a majority of MPs narrowly failing to coalesce around one was forward for...

Philip Armitage of the Harrow Public Law Department of Duncan Lewis Solicitors explains the background to this decision from the High Court. Mr Justice Murray, in the High Court, has on 26 March 2019 dismissed our clients’ Judicial Review claims challenging the decision of the Secretary of State for the Home Department to pay immigration detainees £1 per hour for work carried out while in detention. Our clients are understandably very disappointed by this decision. We continue to be of...

Of all the painful pictures to have adorned the front pages of the British press since Brexit few encapsulated the unfortunate state we find ourselves in as much as 13 white, privileged males driving into Chequers to orchestrate a supposed coup of the lone woman left in charge of administering this broken mess. Far from being an admirer of the Prime Minister, it was impossible to ignore the challenge she and indeed the country face as Ian Duncan Smith revved...

In an extraordinary swipe at Britain's press, the UK's top anti-terror cop called out the British press for the hypocrisy of blaming social media for radicalising terrorists while publishing the Christchurch killer's deadly manifesto to an audience of millions. In an open letter to the mainstream media, Head of UK Counter Terrorism Policing, Assistant Commissioner of Specialist Operations (ACSO) Neil Basu called for "a sensible conversation about how to report terrorism in a way that doesn’t help terrorists." In a...

There are some events that traumatise a country. Some countries are unlucky enough to experience dozens of national disasters, making trauma part of their cultural make up. This true of Ireland, Hungary, Germany and Russia to mention just a few. But not Great Britain. The UK has had its fair share of crises - the Norman invasion, the Blitz, the Civil War - but the British are not a people to wallow in their failures. Even when the country’s standing...

“What connects the vile and dangerous rise of Islamophobia in Australia, America and the UK?”, James O'Brien pondered on Twitter above a 2015 post by international media oligarch Rupert Murdoch which called on “Moslems” to recognise the “growing jihadist cancer” that is supposedly rising within their ranks. Although the national media cannot be held solely responsible for attacks such as the one orchestrated in Christchurch, New Zealand, killing 50 people in their place of worship, ignoring the role it plays...