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Tory MP blocks upskirting law…Twitter reacts

It is hard not to be shocked, as a Tory MP has blocked a law to make upskirting illegal. Sir Christopher Chope decided to chip in with a last minute objection. The MP for Christchurch and also a barrister, shouted out "object" to the private members bill. He was met ...

Review: Machinal- Almeida Theatre

Machinal was first performed in 1928 but its ninety-minute dissection of enforced marriage and America’s obsession with business and money-making is as resonant today as it has been over the last few decades. Playwright Sophie Treadwell (also a human rights journalist ahead of her time) took her main inspiration from ...

Inside the Tommy Robinson protest: a retired cop’s worrying view

What I witnessed this weekend in London leaves us all facing important questions. Perhaps the most serious is, given the events of Saturday, whether the depleted police service could effectively cope with serious disorder on the scale of 2011’s riots. Another Robinson protest is planned for next month while there ...

Corbyn is a ‘phase’ says short-lived ex-PM Gordon Brown

Short-lived PM Gordon Brown has labelled Jeremy Corbyn a “phase” will have a “short shelf life.” The ex-PM said, on the Jeremy Marr show: “Everything’s a phase. “I mean Jeremy himself is going to accept that he – nobody goes on forever. “We’re all phases, we’re all sort of part ...

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