Johnson seen crowing as promise made. Today he and his hatchet-man have written to all government departments demanding rushed plan for huge cut Last September, Boris Johnson was seen crowing […]
BBC’s shameless presentation of IFS analysis of Labour and Tory manifestos exposed by IFS director’s own comments during interview A BBC Radio 4 interview on the Institute for Fiscal Studies […]
University College Dublin Economics professor Karl Whelan knows nationalised infrastructure of national importance is normal – and his respondents point out where else it is, too A Dublin university economics […]
The SKWAWKBOX understands that ‘Labour Future’ (LF) is again sending emails to Labour supporters asking for donations. As the SKWAWKBOX revealed as long ago as 2017, LF is a private […]
Toddbrook Reservoir dam collapse poses ‘threat to life’ A Derbyshire town is undergoing emergency evacuation after parts of the wall of a nearby reservoir collapsed in floods. Toddbrook Reservoir dam […]
Quitter party’s huge spending on social media – but falls foul of Twitter The SKWAWKBOX has already reported on the strange behaviour of the ‘Change UK’ (CUK) Twitter account, which […]
The blight of Tory government on the UK and its people in a few short bullet points As the government prepares for the Chancellor’s ‘Spring Statement’, a list of Tory […]
Questions have been raised about the campaign of Welsh Labour leadership candidate Vaughan Gething after the activities of a ‘research company’ came to light. The company has been calling Welsh […]
A tweet by the well-known left-wing activist known as @rachael_swindon attacking the government’s twisted spending priorities went viral enough for the independent fact-checking organisation FullFact to check its claims. It passed […]
Picture the scene: a popular left-wing leadership candidate threatens the status quo of an Establishment, notionally-left political party, putting at risk the painstakingly-constructed business-as-usual cosiness that it clings to. In […]