Politics

Ex Chancellor of the Exchequer and current Tory MP George Osborne has been named as the new editor of the London Evening Standard. Osborne will succeed Sarah Sands in early May as well as continuing to fulfil his other commitments as an MP, editing the paper on four days a week. Speaking following the announcement Osborne said: “This is such an exciting and challenging job and I’m thrilled to take it on. The Evening Standard is a great paper, testimony to...

Education Policy Institute study claims £74,000 will be slashed off primary school budgets while secondaries stand to lose £291,000 GMB, the union for school support staff, warned today every school in the UK faces a real-terms per-pupil funding cut thanks to the Government’s brutal national funding formula. According to a new report by the Education Policy Institute, primary schools will face budget cuts of £74,000 on average by 2019/20, and secondary schools will lose £291,000. This is the equivalent of...

Warning: this is what it looks like when irony dies. And it's not pretty. Outlining the reasons the SNP are calling for another Scottish independence referendum now that Scotland faces the threat of being dragged out of the European single market as well as out of the EU, Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon explained: "Our precious union of nations is the most successful that the world has ever seen... We've worked together, we've prospered together, we fought wars together. And we have a bright future.... We should...

The Electoral Commission has handed a fine of £70k to the Conservative party for not reporting electoral expenses appropriately. The level of fee is tiny and will easily be covered by the party machine. Even though the party made “numerous failures” during the 2015 general election and three by-elections, it hasn’t led to criminal prosecutions. It could have swayed the outcome of the election, but a fine was seen as appropriate punishment by the EC. The Tory Party’s 2015 UK...

With about twenty minutes to go before PMQs the government announced a u-turn on raising NI for the self-employed. My guess is the aim was to throw Corbyn a curve ball and see if he could punish them from his back foot and think on his feet. It started with the most planted question since Charlie Dimmock buried one of Neil Hamilton’s under a bed of petunias in 1994 when he knew the police were onto him. Huw Merriman, Con,...

When David Cameron became PM he talked of the “big society,” imagining armies of citizens carrying out good works for free in their spare time. Unfortunately most people have to work long hours to make ends meet and to appease slave driver bosses. It was a nice idea, but in practice it couldn’t work, especially has Cameron also announced austerity measures, that meant that everyone’s finances were tighter than ever before as public series suffered. After Cameron lost the EU...

Already under fire for having abandoned pledges to bring unaccompanied child refugees to safety in the UK, the UK government this week pulled the rug out from under the feet of tens of thousands of refugees beginning to make new lives for themselves and their families in the UK, leaving them in a perilous situation. The Home Office has implemented a policy announced by Theresa May back when she was Home Secretary, meaning that even after jumping through all the hoops...

This week Barack Obama's former press secretary perfectly summed up President Trumps's simple strategy of how to detract from the sewer-slide of scandals seeping out of the White House on a daily basis. "The bigger the scandal, the more outrageous the tweet" said Josh Earnest, referring to Trump's claims that he was wire tapped by President Obama in the lead up to the Presidential Election. "We know exactly why President Trump tweeted what he tweeted. Because there is one page in...

The crisis in the NHS continues and it is getting worse, hitting historically high levels of patient waiting times. This January, official figures have shown, that A & E department waiting times were the worst the NHS has faced. More people than ever had to sit in emergency departments, for over four hours, before they were seen by medical staff. Over the winter period the Red Cross said the NHS was facing a humanitarian crisis. The Conservative Government said this...