Politics

Shelter has been doing amazing work for years now – helping individuals with housing problems, and also campaigning for progressive housing policies. It’s an increasingly difficult job. We all know there’s a housing crisis, but government policies are making it ...

The media is still finding it hard to understand how Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn operates. They have been goading him all over the winter break to undertake a Cabinet reshuffle – by which they mean man up, shout at some ...

David Cameron will admit tomorrow that he cannot exert his authority on his own Cabinet, the BBC believes. The BBC claims that Prime Minister David Cameron will announce tomorrow that he will allow Cabinet Ministers to campaign either for or ...

Warning: potentially offensive islamophobic image below. Alas, it seems Donald Trump is slightly cleverer than we thought. The two major parties in the USA, the Democrats and the Republicans, are choosing their candidates for November’s presidential elections. The candidates are ...

Barrister Nazir Ahmed remembers Justice Mustafa Kamal, one of the most talented judges in the history of Bangladesh. Former Chief Justice of Bangladesh Justice Mustafa Kamal died of a cardiac arrest at his residence at Gulshan in the capital on ...

Labour and the National Union of Teachers have derided the Tories’ plans to test primary school pupils on their times tables. They seemed to have a point, as both the Prime Minister and the Education Secretary refused to answer times ...

The Christmas message slot has been taken – the Queen got their first – so UK Prime Minister David Cameron has been bumped into the New Year’s message slot. Take cover. Cameron is still a relatively weak Leader. Although his ...

“I was stupid [and] there’s no fool like an old fool,” said Simon Danczuk, MP for Rochdale after apologising unreservedly for his “inappropriate” behaviour” in sending sexually inappropriate text messages to a 17 year old woman. Within minutes rather than ...

Oliver Letwin MP is the Minister for Government Policy in the Cabinet Office. Government papers, which are routinely released after 30 years, show what he (and fellow civil servant Hartley Booth) wrote about the riots on Tottenham’s Broadwater Farm estate ...

Labour MP for Poplar and Limehouse Jim Fitzpatrick issued two statements on his activities in the second half of this month – both dealing with slaughter. First, Fitzpatrick issued a statement explaining why he had voted, on 3rd December, for ...