Agrigento is a hidden gem along the south coast of Sicily. Once considered the driving force of the golden era of the Ancient Greek civilization, the city now rests, propped upon the remnants of the ruins of the once glorious empire. Nestled amongst these ruins is the Valley of the ...
The Liberal Democrats have announced that they are set to launch a new supporters scheme this week in a bid to lure left-leaning Remainers feeling disenfranchised by the two main parties. Dubbed “Momentum for moderates” by leader Vince Cable the initiative will allow nonmembers to vote in a leadership contest ...
The UK Labour Party's ruling body has this week agreed to adopt in full an international definition of anti-Semitism after being embroiled in a racism crisis since the start of the year. With the media’s cameras primed on yesterday’s meeting in London one wonders how Labour have been left to ...
With parliament about to restart and Boris Johnson’s blonde ambition clearly irking since he had to resign as Foreign Secretary, today’s Telegraph carries a striking portrait photo and a warning to Theresa May that her Brexit plan would spell “victory for Brussels.” “We have gone into battle waving the white ...
The Prime Minister is a dead woman walking. Her political career is stumbling along like a zombie, getting ever slower and more unsteady. Brexit negotiations are going badly and no-one is happy with the current situation. Theresa May is enduring attacks from her left and her right; her own party ...
By David Rosenberg David Rosenberg is a writer, educator and tour guide, whose family helped faced down fascism as Jewish immigrants in the East End and he now conducts radical historical walks of the East End of London There is a queue of people waiting patiently in line: long forgotten ...
They're not just whispering it any more. Boris Johnson's supporters are openly talking about him as the next prime minister. Everything is going exactly as Johnson planned. His article in the Daily Telegraph caused precisely the controversy he wanted. Boris' tasteless jokes about Muslim women's attire were carefully chosen to ...
You've got to admit that Jeremy Corbyn managing to combine being a "Czech spy, Putin collaborator, anti-semitic neo-Nazi, member of ISIS, IRA and Communist Party, with being leader of Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition, and still finding time to grow marrows is bloody impressive", Tom Pride wrote on Twitter earlier this ...
The Conservatives have no way out of their own Brexit trap, Robert Shrimsley wrote in the Financial Times this week. Either they appease powerful party members crying betrayal over her attempts to shift negotiations into soft Brexit mode or she goes hard in spite of the well documented repercussions. It's ...