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 ...
They resigned over Theresa May's Brexit deal as it was so terrible for the country. They derided it for diminishing the UK to an EU rule taker, not rule maker. Yet now, sources suggest as many as 40 Tory Brexit rebels are prepared to vote for Theresa May's deal as ...
These are the MPs who voted against protecting the country from what the ABI called “an unforgiveable act of self-harm.” Last night Theresa May’s government were cowed yet again when, in an unexpected upset, a slim majority of MPs, including Tories defying their own whip, voted 311 to 309 for ...
James O'Brien said "we live in a country that is utterly upside down" after a spate of Tory Islamaphobia cases went largely unreported in the media. Fourteen members of the Conservative Party have been suspended this week over Islamophobic comments made on Facebook, and last night Baroness Warsi, the Conservative Party’s ...
The Conservative party has suspended 14 members for posting Islamophobic or racist comments on internet amid accusations of "insititutional Islamophobia" in the party. Accusations of racism and Islamophobia have dogged the Tory Party in recent years amid calls for an inquiry. Yesterday the Tory Party came under criticism for allowing ...
"But the Queen has no such veto; She must sign her own death-warrant if the two Houses unanimously send it up to her." So Walter Bagehot wrote in 1867. It's doubtful whether today's MPs believe parliamentary supremacy encompasses regicide. But why not try it out? After all, a majority of ...
Lies... there have been loads of them. And not all on the side of a bus. Banning bendy bananas... renaming Bombay Mix to make the snack politically correct... rolling out a one-size-fits-all “euro condom” - a certain section of the British press have shamelessly misrepresented the EU to invent the kind ...
The Group - made up entirely of predominantly Tory backbenchers including Jacob Rees-Mogg and Nicky Morgan has been meeting in the Cabinet Office aided by Whitehall mandarins
There are two things we have to recognise if we hope to understand Brexit. The first is something everyone should have known from the start. The second is a fact becoming clearer by the day. Both are bad for the United Kingdom. First, the UK was always going to be ...