Opinion

By The Retired Raver The eagerly anticipated leaders election debate took place tonight in Cambridge with the conspicuous and much mentioned absence of the Prime Minister Theresa May. The seven politicians including the last minute entrance of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, took their places onstage and lined up to challenge Conservative stand in Amber Rudd on Theresa May's record. Members of the audience asked questions on subjects from brexit to immigration and the economy, but did the Prime Minister's tactic of staying away work?  At first look...

This Facebook comment about Jeremy Corbyn and the General Election is going viral on social media. Read it and decide if your opinion has been influenced by the media.

By Paul de Hoest, Green Party Candidate for South West Hertfordshire Inequality has widened, young people are priced out of the housing market and Government debt keeps going up. The only answer the Tories have is that we need more of the austerity medicine which means: less welfare, less spending on public services and more tax cuts for the already wealthy. Since 2010, at a time when Government spending has been cut back on welfare and public services, the level...

Just over a week before the snap election that Theresa May called buoyed by a massive lead in the polls, YouGov's first seat by seat projection of the campaign suggests that the Tories will now fall 16 seats short of an overall majority. This would be a shocking result - especially as Theresa May's u-turn on calling a snap election she previously insisted would not be in the nation's best interest was in the name of giving her an even bigger parliamentary mandate before...

It’s campaigning season — and that means party political broadcasts. Here’s what the parties have been saying … and what we might read between the lines of their scripted addresses to the nation. A party political broadcast by Theresa May It’s been remarked that Prime Minister Theresa May is running more of a Presidential election campaign. Her blue battle bus, with “Theresa May: For Britain” emblazoned on its side (the Conservative Party logo barely visible), attests to this — as...

Other than sharing the same queen, having social care crossovers, a progressive political outlook and thriving economies, one thing that binds London and Toronto more than anything else is diversity. When Sadiq Khan was first elected mayor he declared the city to be the most diverse in the world, with over 50 non-indigenous communities living here with a population of more than 10,000. London was recently named France's 'sixth biggest city' because of its near 250,000-strong French population, and well over a...

Theresa May has faced new allegations of media cronyism after her interactions at a press conference in Wales. It was in this Wrexham speech, to which only select insiders and media personnel were invited, that May announced adjustments to the social care reforms that had lured such ardent criticism earlier this week. Chanting from a pre-written script, chock-full with carefully-honed soundbites, Mrs May reassured the audience that only her party held the “solution to social care” that doesn’t rely on...

Manchester mayor Andy Burnham has praised the spirit of Manchester following a suicide bomb that killed 22 people and injured 59. The newly elected mayor paid thanks to the people of Manchester, who "even in the minutes after the attack... opened their doors to strangers and drove them away from danger". In his words, "they gave the best possible immediate response to those who seek to divide us. And it will be that spirit of Manchester that will prevail and...

It may seem like a distant memory now, but there was a time before the UK voted itself out of Europe and the US voted in a celebrity halfwit that things had started to look up for the progressive, liberal left. Bernie Sanders had roused public appetite by advertising a new brand of politics which favours the many rather than the few, and at one point Jeremy Corbyn emptied nearly every house in Llandudno with the same message as crowds spilled out of the...