Guardian defends not publishing 205 Jewish women’s complaint over Margaret Hodge antisemitism claims

The Guardian has defended its decision not to publish a letter signed by 205 Jewish women. (See full letter published below.) The letter responded to a Guardian article on March 9: “Just Close Them Down: Margaret Hodge on anti-semitism in Labour’s branches.” Labour MP for Barking Margaret Hodge has been a long-running opponent of the Labour leader, submitting a vote of no confidence in his leadership in 2016. Within 24 hours of Hodge’s latest attack on Jeremy Corbyn in the...

Brexit delay splits Tory Party, but who wants to use split to replace May?

As Theresa May heads to the EU to beg for a delay to Brexit, she was warned by her cabinet that delaying Britain’s exit from the EU risked “the end of the Conservative Party”. There were angry scenes in a cabinet meeting this morning as she refused to guarantee how long a delay she would be asking for. EU leaders, fed up with the uncertainty of the UK position insist that any delay granted has to be for a good...

Trump kills Donald in Scotland, but Corbyn is on the rise

Last year saw a record low of babies called Donald in Scotland, according to the latest figures, although Corbyn is on the rise. Records of boys called Corbyn and Corbyn-Bleu were noted by the National Records of Scotland(NRS) which today released the full list of the names given to the 47,785 babies born across the country in 2018. But there was a record low babies called Donald - the name of US president Donald Trump - with just six being...

Now it’s clear, Brexit is a dog’s dinner, it’s time to march for the people to have a say

Now people and parliament is finally waking up to the total dog’s dinner Brexit is, it’s more important than ever to march for the public to have a final say over our future. Brexit’s biggest chance of succeeding was always to bore the population into submission, and let them tell themselves that it couldn’t be stopped, that resistance was useless. That’s why in October 2017, myself and a few friends first started taking photos of dogs posing with ‘#Wooferendum –...

There can’t be a third Brexit vote rules Speaker…unless it is “substantially changed”

The Speaker of the House of Commons, John Bercow has ruled that the Prime Minister is not allowed to ask MPs to vote on her Brexit deal a third time unless it has “substantially” changed. It had been reported that Theresa May would make a last ditch attempt to get her deal through this week, but that's unlikely to be the case now. Bercow said: “If the government wishes to bring forward a new proposition that is neither the same...

French politician names her cat Brexit because of its reluctance to leave

French politician Nathalie Loiseau reckons her cat is similar to the UK’s Brexit position. Speaking to French newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche, the government minister said: "He wakes me up every morning miaowing to death because he wants to go out. "And then when I open the door he stays in the middle, undecided, and then gives me evil looks when I put him out." Loiseau is one of the leading French Brexit politicians and has not been impressed, at all,...

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