‘At this moment of national emergency, I urge you, please, to stay at home, protect the NHS and save lives’ This from our prime minister. But this is exactly what…
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Alarm bells are ringing as a group of Navy servicemen have been allowed to stay in service after it turned out they were active members of a white nationalist group…
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Philip Rutman chooses this moment to make a principled stand and yet he has managed the hostile environment that created the Windrush scandal and more. Sir Philip Rutnam’s resignation made…
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Chris Packham launches HS2 legal challenge
3 March 2020BBC broadcaster Chris Packham has started a legal challenge to HS2 stating that the UK government’s decision to approve the rail network failed to take account of its carbon emissions…
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UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has been awarded the Sean MacBride Peace Prize along with Noam Chomsky and Japanese anti-military base activists, yet the award received scant coverage in the…
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A new book investigating the death of Dr David Kelly – the Iraq weapons inspector who let slip that Tony Blair’s claim in the lead-up to the Iraq war that…
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Pauline town is licensee at the station hotel
13 February 2018I was asked this week “Why do you do it”? And although I know most of you will know this already – it started with an elderly homeless man called…
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Teens gamble £4m away
13 February 2018The Gambling Commission’s annual report for 2017 shows very high levels of gambling among children in the UK. There are more children gambling than smoking or taking drugs, and totally…
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Hard-line Blairite Remainers use sex scandal to target pro-Brexit MP Kelvin Hopkins
13 February 2018A lot of people in the public eye – particularly journalists and politicians – seem to be afraid to say this at the moment for fear it could damage their…
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The Patient’s eye
13 January 2018The same could be said for the NHS, which is possibly in a worse state than I am. If you have been following this column you will know that my…