The Misinformed Man
This was said by Jacob Rees-Mogg, Minister for Brexit Opportunities and Government Efficiency, on LBC this morning. This is the clip of the programme. So, there we have it. The Prime Minister repeatedly assured...
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A coronation like no other – Part 1
According to the Telegraph: ‘The Queen is to make a permanent move to Windsor Castle after not staying at Buckingham Palace for two years. The 95-year-old monarch has been “working from home” at the...
Kleptocracy in the UK
“Without actively complicit service providers facing prison and negligent ones facing punitive fines, it is hard to see how transnational kleptocracy can be arrested in the UK, however well-drafted the law. The net effect...
“Imagine screaming headlines: President steals a little. But everybody does the same.”
Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine, was born to Jewish parents on 25 January 1978 in Kryvyi Rih, which was at that time in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. His father was a professor and...
We want to build our own history
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy in an emotional plea to the Russian people. “Neighbours are always enriching each other culturally. Yet, that does not make them one entity, and does not separate people into “us”...
Waiting on Gray
Journalists were saying the Sue Gray report would be published today, but so far no indication of that though Johnson is believed to have received it. Not good news. Interesting. As tomorrow is Holocaust...
Dumped or tolerated?
There weren’t any parties. They were working in the garden. No, he didn’t attend any parties. Yes, he did but he thought it was work and only stayed for twenty five minutes, then an...
Working…with wine…and lies
Today the prime Minister apologised for the way the Downing Street ‘party’ looked to the public, but of course it wasn’t a party, it was a work event – Johnson said he believed implicitly...
BYOB
BYOB – Bring your own bottle or Bring your own booze. That was the instruction given in an email headed ‘Socially Distanced Drinks’ from Martin Reynolds, Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Principal Private Secretary to...
World beating
Throughout this pandemic the UK Tory government has used ‘world beating’ as one of its most dragged out mantras, now worn thin by repetition. Everything it has done has been world beating. We’ll today,...
