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During the darkest days of the Second World War, my grandfather volunteered to leave his home in Jamaica to put on a uniform and join the British army and the fight to eradicate Nazism and intolerance from Europe. Thousands of other boys and young men did the same, journeying from the Caribbean and many other … Read more
This is how it ends. This is how it always ends. Badly. What did they think was going to happen? By the time the ‘largely peaceful’ Black Lives Matter protest had called it a day, 49 coppers had been injured and one female officer was lying in hospital with cracked ribs, a broken collarbone and … Read more
Along with slugs, sharks and snakes, goats have long suffered from a poor public image. You might almost say that the goat is the Duke of York of the animal world. For centuries, the goat has been a symbol of sin, which is why the devil is so often depicted with a cloven hoof. Lechery, … Read more
Along with slugs, sharks and snakes, goats have long suffered from a poor public image. You might almost say that the goat is the Duke of York of the animal world. For centuries, the goat has been a symbol of sin, which is why the devil is so often depicted with a cloven hoof. Lechery, … Read more
This is how it ends. This is how it always ends. Badly. What did they think was going to happen? By the time the ‘largely peaceful’ Black Lives Matter protest had called it a day, 49 coppers had been injured and one female officer was lying in hospital with cracked ribs, a broken collarbone and … Read more
Priti Patel was not happy. No, she was not. Ragin’… Fumin’… in fact. She had come to the chamber to issue a statement on Public Order – and the word ‘order’ fell from her mouth with an aggressive grrrrrrr. It was not long ago that many were confidently predicting the Home Secretary’s demise. Her drippy … Read more
One of the worst kept secrets at Westminster was the antipathy between former Labour deputy leader Tom Watson and his then boss Jeremy Corbyn. But only now, after Labour’s worst defeat since 1935, is Watson revealing quite how much he despised Corbyn. Accusing the former Labour leader of running a ‘Stalinist operation’, he singles out … Read more
One of the worst kept secrets at Westminster was the antipathy between former Labour deputy leader Tom Watson and his then boss Jeremy Corbyn. But only now, after Labour’s worst defeat since 1935, is Watson revealing quite how much he despised Corbyn. Accusing the former Labour leader of running a ‘Stalinist operation’, he singles out … Read more
Some images from the Black Lives Matter demonstration in London on Saturday will linger long in the memory. The sheer scale and physical density of the march, as viewed from above, is one, simultaneously impressive in its display of solidarity and terrifying for NHS medics anxious to avert a ‘second wave’ of Covid-19 infection. Then … Read more
Some images from the Black Lives Matter demonstration in London on Saturday will linger long in the memory. The sheer scale and physical density of the march, as viewed from above, is one, simultaneously impressive in its display of solidarity and terrifying for NHS medics anxious to avert a ‘second wave’ of Covid-19 infection. Then … Read more