Two years ago, Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell called for Philip Green’s knighthood to be removed for his ‘vandalism’ British Home Stores pensions scandal – and said similar about Richard Branson because of […]
In this guest post, South Yorkshire teacher, trade unionist and staunch Labour voter Andy Searson takes EU-fixated Labour back-benchers to task. Having just sat through another interview listening to a […]
The BBC’s post-budget coverage strayed into almost unheard-of territory this afternoon, with remarkably frank admissions by experts – unchallenged, for a change, by presenters – of the calamitous state of […]
As most readers will know, the SKWAWKBOX was the target of what many have called a ‘doxxing’ attack by the Daily Mail, with libel added for good measure – and […]
For all the Tories’ supposed polling lead, it’s hard to avoid the impression of a sense of panic in Theresa May’s campaign – and it is Theresa May’s, […]
2016 was a landmark year for the NHS in all the wrong ways. Wrong: Accident & emergency (A&E) waits were worse in every month than the year before – so much worse […]
Yesterday’s YouGov poll shows the biggest Labour lead since YouGov started doing regular polls of party standings in 2002: Even more interesting, to me at least, is the table (taken […]
I’ve deleted this post because further information came to light which meant that, while I still consider the overall thrust of its conclusions more or less valid, the post requires […]
I’ve just heard that a small business, which a couple of my friends had set up, has had to cease trading. The company provided and installed high-quality solar panels for […]
This post is probably not going to be read as widely as my post at the weekend about Danny Boyle and the message of his Olympic opening ceremony to the […]