Evidence is growing that the rebel Labour MPs who tried to oust Jeremy Corbyn as Leader of the Labour Party are out of touch with their party members and the country. Constituency Labour Parties (CLPs) are showing strong support for ...
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The Eagle was stranded: Angela’s out of Labour Leader race
Angela Eagle has had to admit that far from having the support of the majority of Labour MPs, she has effectively been dumped as her colleagues have rushed to nominate the little known Owen “Owen Who?” Smith. When Owen Smith ...
Read More »MPs vote on Trident tonight: will UK get WMD?
In a clear case of “do as we say, not as we do” the UK Government will tonight ask MPs to agree the UK should obtain Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) thousands of times more deadly than those Tony Blair ...
Read More »Boris goes to Luton Airport
Luton is a wonderful place – made all the more delightful by its renowned airport, which is so iconic there’s even a song about it and it played a leading role in a memorable advert for Campari. But it’s not ...
Read More »Turkey: will military coup succeed?
Reports coming out of Turkey far into the night indicate only that the picture is still very confused. Many of the reports are tweets from eyewitnesses: although these give an immediate picture of episodes happening on the ground, it is hard ...
Read More »Military stage coup in Turkey
Shortly after 9pm tonight, Friday, 16th July 2016, a section of the Turkish military released a formal statement announcing that it had taken control of the Turkish state from the elected Government and had taken state power for itself. Matters ...
Read More »Theresa May promises “social justice”: take cover now!
She didn’t quote St Francis of Assisi, but in every other way Theresa May sounded – as she set the scene for her premiership – like Margaret Thatcher. It wasn’t the obvious comparison – of the second woman Prime Minister ...
Read More »Terror on the streets of Dhaka
Life in Dhaka changed forever on Friday, as the city discovered that it seems to have become a target for ISIS activity. The incident began when gunmen burst in to the Holey Artisan Bakery, a somewhat upmarket café, known to ...
Read More »Boris blunders as Tories prepare for contest
Boris Johnson began this morning (Monday, 27th June) with a classic blunder. As he came out of his Islington home, to which he had returned after a weekend in his country home, he announced that all was well with the ...
Read More »Labour right re-runs SDP experiment as JC brings in the Second 11
Labour MPs having a hissy fit over their leadership is nothing new. The 18 Labour MPs who have resigned from the Shadow Cabinet in the last 48 hours are following in the footsteps of those who have done it all ...
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