In a sinister backlash after Donald Trump suggested raising the minimum age for buying rifles to 21 and universal background checks - a suggestion he had appeared to backtrack after a meeting with the lobbying group for the guns industry - their lobbying TV channel NRATV put out this sinister ...
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 ...
We are almost at that time of year when the press office teams at the, increasingly corporate, food bank operators pump out the annual reports and latest figures for the millions who were helped by their food bank operation in 2017 .Their figure will give the main stream news the ...
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 ...
It seems that the most recent mass shooting in the US has created a huge groundswell of support for gun control. On Valentine’s Day 17 people were killed in a senseless attack of innocent high school children. In the aftermath of the attack, Emma Gonzalez spoke out at an anti-firearms ...
In 1993, Falling Down probably looked like a reaction to the LA riots, events which had in fact happened during its shooting and forced it to move and delay certain scenes. Today it’s a strange watch; of its time in casting as much as politics, but those politics can also ...
I’ve never felt cool enough for Shoreditch. Even when I used to wear questionably tight jeans, spent all of my money on vinyl records and devoted some of my late teenage years to writing about emerging Indie bands for the NME, I never quite managed to fit in. In 2018 ...
A sharp rise in the number of bets placed on George Clooney becoming the 46th President of the United States of America has been reported by bookmakers. The Hollywood A-lister is now just 20/1 (from 50/1) to win the Democrat nomination for the 2020 election, with the leading online bookmaker accepting ...
Britain's longest-serving councillor has died - after serving his community for almost 70 YEARS. Great-grandfather Lloyd Wilce, 89, joined the authority back in 1949 because he wanted to improve local sporting facilities in his town. His remarkable tenure saw him secure a running track and a swimming pool in the ...