Softly-spoken Labour MP Barry Gardiner, who terrorised mainstream media interviewers during the General Election campaign with his pinpoint attacks on their bias and poor journalism and talked at length to […]
Paul Follows is a hugely experienced Consulting Structural Engineer, Forensic Specialist and Residential Refurbishment Designer who has taken a keen professional and personal interest in the terrible tragedy at Grenfell Tower […]
It seems to be getting remarkably little attention, but while most of the Queen’s Speech votes in Parliament on Weds and Thursday were won by the Tories 323-309 because of […]
The Rev Ian Paisley was a larger than life, controversial figure in Northern Ireland who founded both the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) now supporting the Tory government, the Free Presbyterian […]
Chuka Umunna’s grandstanding on his unwinnable EU amendment on Thursday was only ever going to serve the purposes of one person: Chuka Umunna. But it was nothing new. Just after […]
Tory-led RBKC (Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea) council cancelled a council meeting tonight because a judge had ordered the council to allow press to attend. In a context of […]
The Tories are stumbling through the charade of trying to get their ‘thin gruel’ Queen’s Speech through Parliament. First they scraped a narrow win against Corbyn’s amendment to actually stop […]
Jeremy Corbyn’s amendment on Wednesday to the Tories’ Queen’s Speech was both intelligent and right. By proposing the lifting of the cap on the pay of public sector employees – […]
The SKWAWKBOX revealed earlier a racist joke shared by Rosemary Carroll, a Tory councillor in the Pendle constituency in the north of England. Conservative HQ had not yet responded when […]
Rosemary Carroll is a Tory councillor and former Mayor in Pendle: Apparently she came across this horrifically racist ‘joke’ on Facebook: Rather than reporting it, or at the very least […]