A member of parliament shot, stabbed, and killed as she sought to meet with her constituents, a Polish man dead after he and two friends were subject to an attack by a group of teens, hate crime up throughout England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, with a record 58% increase in recorded incidents following the referendum – and now Nigel Farage…
After three of the most eminent judges in England – including the Lord Chief Justice and Master of the Rolls, the two most senior positions in the whole of the judiciary – ruled in the High Court in favour of the longstanding principle of parliamentary sovereignty, there was slander and outcry as the newspapers and politicians in the country have become nothing…
Until now, UKIP have been the boys who cried wolf while somehow maintaining the whole of a nation in a state of all too credulous suspense. Culturally and financially, as the only group who provide a net contribution to the economy, EU migrants overwhelmingly benefit Britain, and six years of building towards a referendum would have been an almighty waste of…
For most people, the prospect of a speech in front of any given group is enough to get the stomach churning and the butterflies aflutter. But imagine the sort of predicament which befell Theresa May, in real terms still finding her feet as Britain’s Prime Minister, when she found herself compelled to utter a few words in front of a…
Finding themselves in an especially intolerant mood at the moment, the Daily Mail and The Sun have been rounding on child migrants to Britain, accusing the majority of them of lying about their age. Almost 200 arrived amid the clearing of the Calais Jungle, vulnerable or with family connections already in the United Kingdom, but the Mail and the Sun…
Eschewing for one moment the spurious nature of Brexit negotiations, turning their attention briefly towards real matters of concern, the Conservative government this week chose to meddle in the housing market. And gloriously freed from having to keep up the pretence of any sort of plan, when it comes to real estate the Tories did what British governments do best, simply by…
Open mouthed as though awestruck, for several months now Nigel Farage has been ravenously fellating his United States counterpart Donald Trump. At a 15,000-strong rally in Jackson, Mississippi in August, Farage spoke to stimulate the Trump grassroots, suggesting that The Donald and his supporters could ‘smash the establishment’, and like a geyser the compliments continued to come. Trump portrayed Farage as…
Blithe or rabid comparisons to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party are never hard to come by in any walk of life, but when they’re not confined to internet forums and Twitter, recently in British politics they have been as much a preserve of the right. Take for instance the New Labour fanatic and prominent party donor Michael Foster, who after…
As the Conservatives under Theresa May – despite fervently supporting six years of austerity – seek to present themselves as in touch with the working class, one of the easiest methods as always is to go on the attack. And in the lead up to the Conservative conference the right-wing press pushed a line which seems set to become a mainstay of…
Like all broadcasters these days, the BBC is fond of showing its journalistic credentials by engaging reporters in the incessant hectoring of interviewees, who are barely allowed a word in edgeways as they are bombarded with ill-informed questions, and demands for sweeping soundbites and simplified notions of honesty and truth. Everyone aside from the most powerful – who broadcasters are…
