Last July, one of Theresa May’s first acts as Prime Minister was to stress her support for the renewal of the United Kingdom’s Trident nuclear programme. Asked by Scottish National Party MP George Kerevan if she would be prepared to authorise a strike which ‘could kill a hundred thousand innocent men, women and children’, she replied: ‘Yes. And I have to…
Since usurping power on the blood and thunder of anti-immigrant rhetoric and dead refugees, Theresa May has been accused by her Conservative colleague Ken Clarke of running ‘a government without policies’. And with Brexit dominating the discussion but cannily evading all scrutiny, it remains for May to go on running her government with neither principles nor policies in sight. When…
Squeezed awkwardly between the dainty lace of a ‘bralette’ and the dirt and grime which is conjured by the colloquial north-easterly term ‘brook’, this month ‘Brexit’ made its belated entrance into the third edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. The dictionary is updated four times a year, and its editors could only wait so long in the vain hope that the…
Mere hours after Theresa May ate a three-tiered Brexit cake, made specially for the Prime Minister by some of her closest advisors and aides, she emerged from the bathroom looking several pounds lighter, her cheeks gently perspiring and rosily aglow. Alas the colour they had taken soon masked an embarrassment, for an untoward piece of tissue paper had fixed itself…
One would think that with parliamentary sovereignty at stake, as the connotations of only the third nationwide referendum in British history make their way through the court system, all eyes at the current time would be on the Supreme Court as it prepares to confirm just who has the right to invoke Article 50. Article 50 when triggered will formally notify…
With Brexit set to cost Britain’s already struggling universities billions of pounds thanks to the inevitable drop in student numbers and loss of EU funding, it is worth remembering that even as Home Secretary Theresa May’s hard line, bullying, and bigoted stance on immigration often saw education as an expedient target. Adamant that foreign students should be counted as part of immigration…
The very air across Britain can seem polluted these days with political discourse of the vilest sort, and the stench only gets worse whenever we’re in the vicinity of the ballot box. Yet a recent YouGuv survey has suggested that the bad smell isn’t only metaphorical, because UKIP supporters – presumably in their endeavour to exercise some peculiarly British rights –…
If the mere thought of migrant corpses brings you immediately to orgasm, then you probably don’t need much privacy and you certainly don’t need no porn. That’s why Theresa May, the Tory government, and their abettors in the Labour Party this week were able to boast the long-brewing success of the Investigatory Powers Bill, which after passing in the House…
Who knew that amid all the agonising over Brexit, the loudest grumbles of all would come by way of our tummies? Truly it seems that the way to every British person’s heart is through their stomach. For whichever side of the table you’ve opted to dine at – and even if you’ve mostly contented yourself at home with a few…
Ever since the people of Britain voted broadly in favour of some form of Brexit, agitated parties on both sides of the debate have weaponised everything which falls under the swiftly setting sun, from currency and stock market rates and business arrangements, to the size and availability of our favourite supermarket foods. In short, every shift has become a consequence of…
