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This Saturday I did something I haven't done since the day we voted to leave the European Union: I defended Brexit voters. My friend had made the argument that of all the leave voters he had spoken to about their decision to leave the EU not one had been able to offer up a good argument or account for the consequences of their decision. I had experienced the same thing, but I wasn't prepared to tarnish the other 17.4 million voters with...

The dream of Thatcher’s government was a nation where everybody owned their own home. Council houses would not be needed, or at least only for the tiny minority who couldn’t afford it. Her huge sell-off of council houses in the 80s was supposed to eliminate the need for public housing, and create a new society, or indeed no society at all. This way of thinking has been the policy of every Conservative Government since Thatcher, and also under Tony Blair’s...

Another day, another NHS crisis, this new problem has been uncovered by the BBC. The amount of people who are “long waiters,” those who have exceeded an 18-week target, has increased hugely. There are now 350,000 people in this dire situation, which is a huge rise of 163% in just four years. Almost a tenth of people on the list have had to wait over the 18-week threshold before they receive their treatment. The number of people waiting for operations fell under...

Yes you read the right, and it isn’t fake news, it is one of the most disturbing articles I have ever put together. It appears the world, with the US taking the lead, President Trump pushing the agenda, is regressing to the past, the far distant past. Are we going back to a brutal time nobody can even recall, possibly because it has never been so bad? A new law has just been signed off in Akansas, US, that will...

The Republicans have voted to repeal an Obama-era regulation designed to keep guns out of the hands of people deemed mentally ill. Politicians in the Republican-led House voted 235-180 to repeal the regulation that required the Social Security Administration to disclose to the national gun background check system information about people with mental illness. Rep. Kevin Brady, R-Texas, who chairs the Ways and Means Committee, said: "The Social Security Administration not only overstepped its mission with this regulation, it discriminated against certain Americans with disabilities...

The final section of the new Queensferry Crossing was lifted into place today, completing the 1.7-mile link across the Forth. The segment, which is one of 122, was slotted into place by engineers, marking the "culmination of a world class team effort". The £1.35 billion structure, which is replacing the Forth Road Bridge, connects the Lothians and Fife and is scheduled to be opened in May. Michael Martin, Project Director for Forth Crossing Bridge Constructors (FCBC) said: "This final deck...

A Man was told he could go up and down steps despite having had his legs removed just months before and using a wheelchair, reports the Hackney Citizen. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has admitted there was an error in the process by which a double amputee from Hackney was assessed as being fit to work and had his benefits reduced. Despite having had both his legs amputated just months earlier, Julius Holgate, 53, scored zero via the...

The controversial cuts to disability benefits was met with derision by many people in UK, and seemed a particularly cruel cut in austerity Britain. Many viewed it as an attack on the most vulnerable in society. Now MPs have said that the planned cuts should be delayed until the Government can define how the changes will help those desperately in need of benefits to survive. Wealthy Zac Goldsmth, and candidate for London Mayor, has been booted out of Richmond AID...

Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway, one of the highest ranking assistants to Donald Trump, has just made up a massacre to justify the ban on Muslims from Iraq. In a frightening interview with MSNBC's Chris Matthews that aired last night she completely made up a terrorist attack committed by Iraqi refugees that never happened — the "Bowling Green Massacre". Joe Sonka was quick to point out the inaccuracies of her fictitious massacre, which she said "didn't get reported" under the Obama administration,...