Tories made a whole new law just to increase Starmer’s pension (no, seriously)

‘Opposition leader’ benefited from Tory legislation enacted specifically to benefit him ‘Labour’ ‘leader’ Keir Starmer has rightly been attacked for his closeness to the Establishment and the British security state, which has seen him mount no meaningful opposition to the Tories while colluding on repressive legislation such as the ‘spycops’ law to give undercover police…

Tories made a whole new law just to increase Starmer’s pension (no, seriously)

As the DUP digs in its heels, is Northern Ireland facing hard times?

Rishi Sunak has managed to avoid humiliation in the vote on the ‘Stormont Brake’ aspect of his ‘Windsor Framework’ deal with the EU over trade in Northern Ireland. Instead the shame was hung on the Democratic Unionists and Tories in the European Research Group faction. MPs voted by 515 to 29 to support the deal…

As the DUP digs in its heels, is Northern Ireland facing hard times?

Is anybody daft enough to believe Keir Starmer’s Labour will reform the police

Keir Starmer has been bandwagon-jumping again. He’s saying the Metropolitan Police has been a basket case for 13 years under the Tory government and the racism, sexism and homophobia that Baroness Casey uncovered  has shattered the trust of the people of London – and the rest of the UK: “The racist, sexist and homophobic abuses…

Is anybody daft enough to believe Keir Starmer’s Labour will reform the police

Energy bills could fall below £2,000 – but remember they’ll still be ‘considerably more’ than before

By now we’re all aware that energy bills are likely to fall below £2,000 by July – right? But households are still likely to struggle with payments because that’s still one-third more than what we were paying before the war between Russia and Ukraine. The Mirror is reporting information from investment bank Investec, stating that…

Energy bills could fall below £2,000 – but remember they’ll still be ‘considerably more’ than before

Cost of living support schemes are to end soon. Will you lose out?

This is another ‘public service announcement’ (as one reader described them) for those of you who need to know. Some ‘cost of living’ support schemes announced by the Tory government last May are set to close at the end of March. They are: The Warm Home Discount is a one-off discount of £150 off electricity bills. It…

Cost of living support schemes are to end soon. Will you lose out?

Is this the new wheeze for friends of the Tories: subsidies for asylum-seeker hotels?

It’s not so long since we discovered the Tory government was giving contracts to provide Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to their friends via an illegal ‘VIP lane’ – now it turns out they are paying their buddies to run hotels housing asylum-seekers. Apparently the BBC has been told the government is using 395 hotels to…

Is this the new wheeze for friends of the Tories: subsidies for asylum-seeker hotels?

Months after the Forde Report was published, Labour STILL hasn’t contacted its author about future steps

Martin Forde KC, the author of a major report on allegations of anti-Semitism in the Labour Party, has said there are serious issues of racism but, since it was published in July, nobody in the organisation has contacted him to discuss what should happen next. Mr Forde told the Express he has “anxiety” and “genuine underlying…

Months after the Forde Report was published, Labour STILL hasn’t contacted its author about future steps

Dominic Raab fails to convince he’s not a bully in TV interview

Dominic Raab: look at those eyes, those hands, the set of his face. Could you believe a man like that could be a bully? This is odd: Dominic Raab appeared on a TV show where he was asked about the bullying allegations against him – but ducked the questions by saying it was improper to […]

Dominic Raab fails to convince he’s not a bully in TV interview

Watch Martin Lewis’s appraisal of Jeremy Hunt’s Budget

He was name-checked by Jeremy Hunt in his Budget statement on Wednesday, and Martin Lewis went on to provide an instant response to it after the Chancellor sat down. Here it is: For me – and for Mr Lewis, it seems – the interesting aspect was one that Hunt didn’t mention in his speech. MoneySavingExpert.com…

Watch Martin Lewis’s appraisal of Jeremy Hunt’s Budget

Owen Jones Demolishes the Myth that the Nazis Were Socialists

This is an excellent video in which Guardian columnist Owen Jones attacks and refutes the right-wing myth that the Nazis were socialists, because Hitler said they were. In my experience, this is one the of the favourite accusations of the loony American libertarian right, who see any kind of state intervention in industry as a […]

Owen Jones Demolishes the Myth that the Nazis Were Socialists