Breaking: Tory Muslim peer hammers party chair over Islamophobia hypocrisy
Tory peer Sayeeda Warsi has gone public on Twitter with a scathing put-down of her party Chair Brandon Lewis after he made a self-satisfied comment on the release of the […]
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May back to square one as Speaker rules govt’s trade bill is subject to rejection by Lords
Theresa May escaped a likely fall from office over her trade bill this week by the skin of her teeth, thanks to unprecedented, cowardly surrenders to her hard right fringe […]
Unrepentant Sugar taken to public school for racist tweet about black footballers
Alan Sugar has again been heavily criticised on social media for an astonishingly insensitive tweet containing an image of Senegal’s black footballers with a comment comparing them to Marbella beach-sellers: […]
Petition launched: Labour MPs to debate LFI censure after massacre apologism
Following widespread outrage about the Labour Friends of Israel (LFI) response to the massacre of almost sixty unarmed protesters and the wounding of thousands more, Labour members have launched a […]
Calls for Labour and MPs to sever ties with LFI after Gaza tweet causes outrage
Yesterday in Gaza, over fifty civilians were killed and two thousand injured when Israeli armed forces fired on crowds protesting in commemoration of Nakba Day and against the opening of […]
Freud: Foodbank dunce – or devil?
Lord Freud, the millionaire government minister and former investment banker, has outraged many in the House of Lords and poverty campaigners by claiming that there is no link between […]
254 Lords betray the people of England
A few minutes ago, 254 peers betrayed the people of England, as they defeated 146 other peers in a crucial NHS vote on a Labour motion in the House of […]