Comment On Friday evening, Labour Party general secretary Jennie Formby gave the party’s deputy leader a schooling, in her response to his grandstanding demand to take over the party’s disciplinary […]
Tom Watson’s attempt to hijack Labour processes has ended in humiliation Labour deputy leader Tom Watson’s recent attempts to increase his profile and influence by hijacking Labour processes caused him […]
Labour deputy leader Tom Watson has rightly been pilloried this evening after a ludicrous interview in which he claimed that the party’s general secretary, Jennie Formby, had “staked her career […]
The SKWAWKBOX reported earlier that Theresa May was accused of ‘betraying women’ when she broke a vow to MPs on maternity leave that she would ‘pair’ them with one of […]
Theresa May scraped through a vital vote tonight that – after a start to the week in which she whipped MPs to defeat her own EU proposals to placate her […]
As the SKWAWKBOX covered on Friday, Tory MPs blocked legislation to outlaw ‘upskirting’ by talking non-stop for hours until deadlines for it to proceed further through the legislative process. Philip […]
Tory MP Philip Davies has a reputation for filibustering – talking interminably – to try to block legislation intended to help or protect women. He has twice done so – […]
Jess Phillips has strenuously denied the allegation made against her by some parliamentary colleagues. According to a number of BAME (black, Asian and minority ethnic) female Labour MPs, in dramatic […]
Last weekend, the Observer’s dreary Nick Cohen varied his usual anti-Corbyn bile by launching a misogynist attack against the Unite union’s Jennie Formby, who is one of two women on […]
The Spectator magazine is a well-known right-wing publication. In December it warned the government in emphatic terms about the “danger of fake news”: The following month, it published fake news […]