Emily Thornberry standing in for Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn had MPs in stitches as she compared the Tory ministerial bloodbath over Brexit to "Reservoir Dogs remade by the Chuckle Brothers." Theresa May's deputy David Lidington who took Prime Minister’s Questions today squirmed as the Shadow Foreign Secretary forensically explained the ...
"In politics, there are Realists and there are Romantics", William Hague wrote in the Telegraph today. His words echo those printed in a Guardian editorial last week before the Chequers outcome unravelled, pointing to the collection of rudderless populists that have been left in charge of running the country for the past ...
A Tory backbencher has revealed that Theresa May could be on her way out after David Davis resigned as the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union. The Brexit secretary became the fifth cabinet minister to step down in under a year after Amber Rudd, Michael Fallon, Priti Patel and Damian Green vacated ...
The Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union (DExEU) has exited the cabinet with all attempts to appear united over Brexit in disarray. As reports emerge of Tory plots to oust Theresa May gathering pace, an opinion poll this weekend revealed that the majority of the British public would ...
CETA amounts to a full frontal attack on Parliamentary democracy and any concept of national sovereignty and makes a complete mockery of the Government’s oft-stated objective of ‘bringing back control’ says Union. GMB, Britain’s general union, has criticised a Government plan to sign away UK sovereignty in a mega trade ...
Call the FeLine! Cat lovers are finally getting their wish. New York City now boasts multiple places where you can dine with your favorite feline. From adoptable fur balls such as Chewy, Lola, Marley, and Willow, these feline cafes pack some serious fur. “New York City is a place chock-full ...
With confidence in a divided Conservative government’s ability to negotiate a Brexit that makes sense for Britain, Europe and Northern Ireland at an all-time low – both at home and abroad, Theresa May urgently needed some good news. And according to the front pages of the newspapers that have been ...
In Boris Johnson's recent leaked remarks, for which he has still not been sacked, the Foreign Secretary said “Imagine Trump doing Brexit. I have become more and more convinced that there is method in his madness.” Most people laughed off this comment as yet another example of Johnson's toadying up ...
Theresa May had just battled through possibly the hardest 24 hours of her premiership, only for her plans to be snubbed by the EU. May had dealt with a major rebellion, from within her own party, and somehow managed to put together a Brexit plan to take to the EU, ...
It was with a dismissive sweep that Nigel Farage mentioned that he would just leave Britain if Brexit was a disaster. Speaking on his LBC show the outspoken campaigner claimed he never "promised that it would be a huge success", just that "we will be self-governing". "That’s the point", he said. ...
A viral tweet is doing the rounds on social media after highlighting the compelling body of evidence that suggests Brexit will make us all poorer. The government's leaked impact report that came to light in March of this year confirmed most of our fears that every region in Britain will ...
She told an inquest that Alexander Perepilichnyy, 44, was shaking and drinking a lot and seemed "somewhere else"
Chris Hobbs is a former officer of the Metropolitan Police who served for 32 years Well Home Secretary, you certainly stirred up a hornet’s nest with your carefully timed statement over the weekend that spiralling violent crime involving shootings and stabbings is not as a result of reductions in police numbers. ...
Alexander Perepilichnyy, 44, was being pursued for millions in Russia including from a company with links to the alleged killer of Alexander Litvinkenko
If there is one thing British politics does not need right now it is another elitist party run by the well off, but according to an Observer revelation published today that is precisely what it may be getting thanks to a new “centrist” movement spearheaded by a former Labour benefactor. ...
Environmental groups are upping the pressure on Whitehall to accelerate the transition to electric vehicles (EVs), with the Green Alliance urging the government last week to ban petrol and diesel cars by 2030. That highly ambitious timeframe for phasing out combustion engines would do wonders for reducing air pollution. Unfortunately, ...
By Roger Cottrell, PhD At 8.00 pm on March 23, 2018, 18 officers of the Information Commission Office led by Elisabeth Denham raided the headquarters of Cambridge Analytica in Mayfair, London, having secured a warrant to do so from a Judge in less than 48 hours. This may seem like ...
They say he was not linked to the Salisbury poisonings
An 18-year-old Egyptian student has died three weeks after she was brutally battered by a 10-strong girl gang in a suspected racist attack. Mariam Moustafa was left in a coma after being jumped by the group of female yobs outside a shopping centre while she waited for a bus at ...
By Dr Roger Cottrell To listen to the selective media coverage and political sound bites regarding the poisoning, on March 4, in Salisbury, of Russian defector Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia, you might for a moment start to believe that Theresa May, Boris Johnson and Amber Rudd planned to ...
By Dr Roger Cottrell “But make no mistake, the sky will fall in” -Harry Perkins in “A Very British Coup,” Channel 4, 1988. A week is reputedly a long time in politics. Looking at the seven-day time span that began, on February 16, 2018, it at times seemed (for ...
As more Conservative MP’s threatened rebellion over Theresa May’s insistence on ruling out a customs union with the EU, Jeremy Corbyn today exposed how fragile her parliamentary majority is by setting out Labour’s red lines for Brexit. The Labour leader said he would work towards an economy that “works for ...
By Robert Seiler As if Europe did not have enough corrupt, charismatic politicians who expertly undermine democratic norms to their own benefit behind a charming facade, Italy’s Silvio Berlusconi is currently enjoying a political renaissance that is bad news for Italians but also for the whole of the European Union – Britain included. Italians may have known better, but the rest of the EU thought it was rid of ...
By Sammy Russell A number of pro-Brexit figures have criticised the transition period for leaving the UK a ‘vassal state’. Granted, the conditions of the transition period are a world away from the ‘take back control’ mantra of the Brexiteers - it leaves the UK a neutered state. But for the ...
Well hi there, and how's tricks? My apologies, and they are reasonably sincere, for having been absent from these (web) pages for two months. Since summarizing 2017 as the year that was I've taken a well-needed break from iPhone journalism to do some generally tedious yet altogether better paying work. ...
Prime Minister Theresa May is set to outline what Britain wants from Brexit almost a year after article 50 was triggered and some 19 months after the vote to leave the EU. The Conservatives will outline their vision for Britain over a series of speeches which are set to be ...
By Robert Seiler Influential Bulgarian businessman Petar Hristov, who had assisted with the dismantling of a kidnapping ring and who was closely tied to senior members of Bulgaria’s ruling GERB party, was shot in broad daylight on the 8th of January in an upmarket area of Sofia, the Bulgarian capital. This fatal shooting, coming six days ...
Toby Young has resigned from his universities watchdog role apologising for the offence his social media posts and writings have caused over the years, just two days after the Prime Minister defended his controversial appointment to the role. On the weekend Theresa May said that the controversialist who had made ...
Well as far as years go this was certainly one of them. I recall remarking somewhere around the end of 2016, the year when All the Celebrities Died, that we would some day look back at that year as the Good Old Days. Who knew that would almost be immediate? ...
The EU referendum and the question of whether we sever ties from union with our neighbouring countries has divided both politics and households. Nothing could persuade many die-hard Europhiles that remaining in the EU might be a better option for the UK. Britain Thinks found 37 per cent of Leave voters are ...
Over half a century ago, Dwight D. Eisenhower penned his Presidential memoirs, Mandate for Change. The former army general, who served as the United States President from 1953 to 1961, documented his time as head of state and disclosed the US’s geostrategy, including his decision to interfere in Iran’s burgeoning ...
British citizens who fear immigrants and thought they threatened their values and way of life were more likely to have voted Brexit And the results, partly driven by narcissism, were regardless of their age, gender or level of education. The research, published in Frontiers in Psychology, identified 'collective narcissism' as ...
The Labour Party has removed a candidate for a safe council seat in next year's Bradford Council elections after an outcry over antisemitic posts on social media. Nasreen Khan was a former Respect party activist who had joined the Labour Party and was on the shortlist for a Labour council ...
In further signs that Theresa May has lost control of her party, new revelations have emerged that have made many question the Prime Minister’s decision not to sack hapless Development Minister Priti Patel. There were calls for many quarters for Patel to be sacked for breach of ministerial code after ...
The prankster who famously handed Theresa May a fake P45 after gatecrashing her Tory conference speech joked about catching the beleaguered PM's COLD. Comedian Simon Brodkin, 40, who performed under his alter-ego Lee Nelson, told an audience he had "quite a bad cough" and "caught something off Theresa". The comic ...
Usually when Theresa May makes an important speech the pound tends to plummet scarily on international markets and confidence in Britain falls even further. Sterling cliff dive after Theresa May speech But you know it’s been a good speech when everyone’s favourite political farce The Thick ...
This is Jeremy Corbyn MP's speech to the Labour Party Conference in Brighton in full. To a rapturous reception, the leader of the Labour Party declared: “we are now the political mainstream!” And he warned Theresa May that the Labour Party are more prepared than ever to fight another general election. The ...
A graph of the pound against the US dollar has been made to look like the White Cliffs of Dover after Theresa May failed to hit the mark in Florence. Sterling took a dive immediately after the speech which gave few answers as to the direction of Brexit talks and ...
The EU’s chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, thinks that the UK is aiming for an “impossible” Brexit deal where it retains the benefits of EU membership despite leaving the economic union. At a press conference after latest round of talks, top EU negotiator Mr Barnier said: “The UK wants to take ...
When Hunter S. Thompson was writing the article series for Rolling Stone that became the book Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72, for my money still the best book ever written on US politics, he combined factual reporting, interviews and out-and-out hallucinatory fantasies to give both the facts ...
This interactive map below features the climate, fracking and environmental issues in your constituency with a breakdown below of where candidates stand on these issues. With the general election upon us, these are the constituencies where candidates’ positions on fracking, energy, air pollution, airport expansion and climate change issues could be decisive if you are ...
A vicar's daughter exuding sincerity and humility, understandably, the nation trusts Theresa May above all others to steer us through the chaotic divorce from the EU that she warned against, but now believes in whole-heartedly. And we also trust her fully now she has announced she needs even more of that ...
It was a momentous occasion, and the house was full (for once) at PMQs, and the triggering of Article 50 statement that followed. However, it was as boring as ever, more drab than a windswept March weekday in Bridlington, and that comes from experience. Jeremy Corbyn didn’t ask any questions ...
We live in an age of contradictions – we know that the only constant thing in life is change; yet, the more things change, the more they remain the same. The Cold War triggered some economic problems in the global economic landscape and four decades later, economists can still point ...
We all love a good celebration; a chance to get our glad-rags on, catch up with friends and show off our best dance moves. And Brits find plenty of excuses to throw a big bash, too, but which ones are our favourites? In a lifetime of celebrations it’s really the ...
