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After a couple of days ahead of “no nomination”, Labour leadership challenger Owen Smith MP has dropped back again and is now once more “less popular than no one” – while Jeremy Corbyn remains way head of both. Accounts of ...

A number of young black men have been shot by police in the USA in recent years – leading to the emergence of “Black Lives Matter”, which styles itself as “not a moment, but a movement”. This distinction comes because ...

On the night of 3rd August, a woman sadly lost her life and five other people were injured as a man with mental health problems launched a random knife attach in Russell Square. At lunchtime on 4th August, Jeremy Corbyn ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...