Politics

Buried in a 19,800 word Spectator essay written by former online editor and Vote Leave director Dominic Cummings is an admission: The Brexit referendum was won by lying to the public. The piece, found here, is well worth reading but also falls victim to classic mansplaining of a complex issue with many words wasted on prose that most politicians would be proud of, working around the subject rather than delving in to the heart of it. Of course, that's for a very good reason, because...

Solving the housing crisis isn't rocket science - stop dithering and start building, says the GMB. According to the union if the Tories had launched building projects for each of their 1,000 housing announcements since 2010, things would look a lot rosier. The government unveiled its delayed housing strategy today, topping off a series of ideas that have been pumped out weekly since they were in government. But instead of churning out an average of three ideas every week the best...

New figures released by the TUC have discovered three million employees working on the frontline of our public services are actually "insecure" workers. A heavy reliance on temporary staff, has led the GMB to call this station "shocking" and has criticised the government for not addressing the problem. This is an 25% increase since 2011 overall and a large 42% rise in insecure working within education and a 133% increase in social care. The government has already come under fire for...

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...

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...

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,...

The last few weeks have seen media attention like never before around a single word that historically refers to an emission of wind from the anus. The Trump storm that has engulfed the media has actually been good news for the incoming president, playing in to the hands of his “shock and awe” campaign to destabilise Congress while reassuring his base that he would follow through on his campaign commitments. But it has also provided a similar boon to his allies across...

114 MPs voted against giving the European Union (Notification of Withdrawl) Bill a second reading. The Bill gives Theresa May the power to invoke Article 50 and start the two year, irreversible process of Brexit. The group included 50 SNP MPs, 47 Labour, seven Liberal Democrats alongside Tory Ken Clarke and nine others. This is the full list (see below) Lady Hermon (Independent - North Down) Meg Hillier (Labour (Co-op) - Hackney South and Shoreditch) Stewart Hosie (Scottish National Party...