IT is by no means a shock to the system that this Conservative UK Government wants to strip away our freedoms.
I TRULY believe (and cynically even hope) that the UK is living through what is our “Trump phase”. In the last 12 years we have watched consecutive governments hack away at the public state and normalise inequality.
"THE senior leadership at the centre, both political and official, must bear responsibility for this culture,” states the final line of the third paragraph of the conclusions of Sue Gray’s report into the countless parties that took place at Number 10 throughout various lockdowns.
THE Queen’s Speech in Parliament is a lot of pomp and circumstance that surrounds the announcements of the Government’s plans for the coming Parliamentary term (traditionally for a single year, but some of them go a lot longer if the Government of the day is in a tenuous position).
SLEAZE in Westminster is nothing new. “Sex scandal”, “bullying scandal”, “sexism”, “harassment”, “misogyny” are all pretty common words to see in headlines about the place. The number of these scandals has been increasing steadily throughout my lifetime. People have long known the place is a cesspool, but when people ask me about Parliament, I must tell them the truth: things are getting worse.
THE largest reduction in living standards since records began. That’s what is about to hit people all across the UK. That’s not the typical hyperbole of party-political press releases talking. It’s not the standard political juggling of figures to make the party in power look as bad as possible. It’s the Office of Budget Responsibility – the non-political, non-partisan, non-departmental public body – talking. Energy and food prices are skyrocketing at previously unforeseen rates, whi
To think about this illegal invasion of a democratic country by an authoritarian madman is angering enough, but the threat to Ukraine should stir fear and determination in the rest of us.
AS I write this, the aftermath of Storm Dudley is still being dealt with, and Storm Eunice is ripping through the country delivering record-breaking winds.
YOU all know the endless list of scandals by this point. Since I last wrote a column, the initial redacted findings from Sue Gray’s report into Partygate have been released. The report states that there were “failures of leadership” at Number 10, as well as failures of “judgement”.
