"POLITICS"

“This issue of politicians displaying contempt-for-public and contempt-for-Parliament has not gone away. In fact, it is more pressing than ever.”

PoliticsHome, an online political information site, issues a daily ‘breakfast briefing’ of selected top five stories. But today’s briefing has a black hole. One of the headlines reads: Tory MP…

The US House Intelligence Committee’s top Democrat has accused Republicans of tampering with a memo about claims of FBI surveillance at the 2016 election. Adam Schiff said Republicans had changed…

Our Man in London, David Skalinder translates the rise of Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn to American ears – from the credibility behind his radical “student politics,” to the accident…

“It will all be over by Friday.” A casual remark about the General Election in the pub just now. I thought of The Great War, “It will all be over…

by Neil Goodwin I go on trial at Westminster Magistrate’s Court on May Day, having been nicked protesting the genocide in Gaza, blocking the entrance to parliament dressed as Charlie Chaplin. This…

Duggan, 54, is a former US marine corps pilot who retired from the military in 2002 with the rank of major, married an Australian woman and became an Australian citizen, simultaneously giving…

Better, Worse or Different? Well….perhaps. Like anything from decades -their symbol is the rose after all…. But was it really that much better than our 21st Century counterpart? Let’s examine,…

THE CLIFF JONES COLUMN As a teenager interested in politics I thought I would read Capital and Mein Kampf. People in the bookshop looked at me as though I had…

WORD JOURNALIST FACES DEATH IN DEPORTATION HORROR NUJ calls on UK government to halt deportation of journalist Ghazi Gareeb Zorab  27 Jun 2023 The NUJ has urged UK authorities to…