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Woodcock’s self-defence exposes the hypocrisy of the Labour right

01/05/2018by SKWAWKBOX 15 Comments

‘Semi-detached’ Labour MP John Woodcock has been suspended pending the investigation of ‘sex-pest’ allegations against him. Mr Woodcock is entitled to the presumption of innocence – and has claimed as […]

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S*n’s desperate smear to distract from Defence Sec’s £30k dinner with ‘Putin crony’

15/02/2018by SKWAWKBOX 9 Comments

The S*n has launched a desperate smear on Jeremy Corbyn that amounts to nothing but innuendo: he had a general chat with a Czech diplomat – in the House of Commons, […]

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#Marr’s slip is not manners. It’s the tip of a value-judgment iceberg (video)

11/02/2018by SKWAWKBOX 30 Comments

The programme-makers and the Establishment have rushed to defend Andrew Marr’s ‘hot mike’ moment on his show this morning. Marr appeared to believe a moment too early that audio had […]

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Patel wanted ‘aid’ for Israeli military in Golan. Golan is where they treat ISIS

08/11/2017by SKWAWKBOX 19 Comments

The media are buzzing with the on-again/off-again sacking of Foreign Aid Minister Priti Patel in the ongoing saga of the damaging revelations that Ms Patel had a series of undisclosed […]

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‘Odd couples’ article misses point – shows Establishment still rattled by Pidcock

15/10/2017by SKWAWKBOX 19 Comments

A Gaby Hinsliff article in today’s Observer lists a number of supposedly-unlikely parliamentary ‘odd couples’ under the emetic title: The piece amounts to little more than a barely-veiled attack on […]

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65% of public agree with Corbyn on terror causes #GE17

26/05/2017by SKWAWKBOX 5 Comments

As the SKWAWKBOX showed this afternoon, MI5, MPs and even Tony Blair agree with Jeremy Corbyn’s speech this morning that the UK needs to change its behaviour internationally to maximise […]

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#Marr, Thornberry shred Fallon’s credibility – even right-wing rags agree

14/05/2017by SKWAWKBOX 3 Comments

Defence Secretary Michael Fallon has been talked up by the media as the Tories’ ‘hatchet man’ ever since his Crosby-inspired, nonsensical condemnation of Ed Miliband for standing for the Labour leadership […]

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Exclusive: Gardiner on defence, manifesto, Boulton – and being internet sensation

12/05/2017by SKWAWKBOX 7 Comments

As the SKWAWKBOX examined this morning, Labour spokesman and front-bencher Barry Gardiner has become one of the sensations of the General Election campaign so far, with his charming but emphatic […]

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