The prime minster’s attempt to shift the blame for thousands of deaths onto care homes has provoked outrage and disbelief across the care sector. A care home owner said they’ve been left “speechless and aghast” after Boris Johnson said that “too many care homes didn’t really follow the procedures” as figures show almost 20,000 confirmed […]
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If you were active on social media, you would have come across a video where dozens of citizens in Florida, USA were gathered in a court to explain themselves for their failure to use face masks in public places. One citizen argued that she does not wear masks just like she hates wearing her underwear, […]
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The de facto-deputy prime minister Dominc Raab thinks ‘taking the knee’ is something from ‘Game of Thrones’ and called the act – performed around the world by Black Lives Matter protestors – a “symbol of subjugation and subordination”. Raab made the comments in an astonishing interview with talkRadio’s resident ‘provoc-jock’ Julia Hartley-Brewer this morning that […]
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The prime minister has been accused of “stoking fear and division” ahead of a weekend of anti-racist demonstrations and far-right counter-protests across a country still reeling from last weekend’s iconoclastic events in Bristol. That Boris Johnson’s highly contentious tweets – in which he called it “absurd” and “shameful” that the national monument to Winston Churchill […]
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Jacob Rees Mogg has long been painted as an anachronistic, outdated parliamentary throwback from the 19th century which even his supporters have difficulty defending. However, now the Common’s very own pantomime villain is facing new charges of depriving and effectively “euthanising” vulnerable MPs by insisting they return to Westminster to vote in person – without […]
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Boris Johnson has unveiled the next lifting of lockdown measures but the details have been overshadowed by the continuing furore surrounding his most senior adviser’s breach of lockdown rules. Dominic Cummings claimed “exceptional circumstances” means he behaved “responsibly and legally” and therefore did not breach the rules he helped set, in an extraordinary press conference […]
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And it suddenly came to a kick in the face. Once you were enjoying your cup of coffee at your favourite coffee shop, pursuing the things you were passionate about, chatting with your friends over drafts of beer, singing the nights out while everyone slumbered their exhaustion away—and then everything changed. Just like that, an […]
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In anticipation of a future investigation into the UK coronavirus response and the government’s handling of the pandemic, the blame game between scientists and politicians has begun. While the government has always insisted that all decisions were based on scientific advice, the high coronavirus death toll in care homes has led ministers to pass the […]
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On the 75th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day the Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s letter to the veterans of WW2 described theirs as “the greatest generation of Britons who ever lived”, to whom: “Those of us born after 1945 are acutely conscious of the debt we owe.” Yesterday (Thursday) the deaths of nine Chelsea Pensioners […]
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The government’s warning to the BBC that the broadcaster risks losing public confidence amid accusations of political bias during the coronavirus crisis is ringing hollow. Culture secretary Oliver Dowden’s letter to the BBC’s director-general Lord Tony Hall urges him to “uphold the highest standards in relation to integrity and impartiality” while warning “any damage” to […]
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