Politics

Prime Minister Theresa May has appointed former Daily Mail political editor James Slack as her official spokesperson just days after Wikipedia banned the publication after deeming the news group “generally unreliable”. Last week the online encyclopedia imposed a blanket ban on the Daily Mail with editors saying the move “centred on the Daily Mail’s reputation for poor fact checking, sensationalism and flat-out fabrication” But the official response has been somewhat to the contrary, with May appointing their political editor into a senior position within...

“Aliens pouring into our country”. “The Swarm on our streets.” The first is a Daily Mail headline from 1938 and the second is from the same newspaper in 2016. Following two visits to the Calais 'jungle' last year I was struck by the numbers of unaccompanied children and young people I saw there. They were a part of the ninety thousand lone children assessed to be among the refugee population across Europe (a figure regarded as understated by Save the Children). These children were at the mercy of hostile authorities, people smugglers...

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,...