THE government has refused for the sixth time to name companies given priority access to PPE contracts This follows revelations of contracts valued at nearly £43 million handed to one-man…
Politics
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Tory donors rake in the cash from public coffers
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MI5’s hand in fitting-up the Shrewsbury 24 court told
3 February 2021MI5 helped prejudicial ITV drama
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Eviction loophole slipped into Covid home protection promise
9 January 2021The government has sneakily created a loophole in its eviction ban that waters down protections for people who lost their jobs during the pandemic. On Friday the government announced it was extending…
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“Anti-Semite” is now just a swearword
16 December 2020“If ever there were proof that the term [anti-Semitism] no longer really means anything substantial or specific, this is it.”
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Has anyone else noticed how the British seem to be Americanising their own history? This question is not asked from an insular perspective. I find it no more irritating that…
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“When you voted for Boris Johnson last year, did you know his policies came from the National Front?”
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Labour’s largest trade union backer has not made any donations to the party since Sir Keir Starmer was elected leader, it has emerged. Unite – headed by Len McCluskey, a…
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Facts and fiction about UK overseas aid
30 November 2020A number of Conservative MPs are orchestrating a plan to block Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak’s plan to slash the UK’s foreign aid budget, by 4 billion or nearly 29…
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‘Meet the Wrong Kind of Jew’
29 November 2020Being call the wrong kind of Jew is one of the lesser insults thrown at Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi .