Monthly Archives: August 2020

Prentis PR stunt backfires Tory DEFRA minister Victoria Prentis couldn’t resist a PR stunt to draw attention to the Tories’ fisheries bill – fishing rights being one of their favourite pavlovian dogwhistles when they want to whip up hatred of … Continue reading →

By Robert A. Vella While his buddy Vladimir Putin is rushing to the aid of the Belarusian dictator who rigged the recent election to remain in power, President Trump has moved to conceal evidence of Russian interference in the U.S. … Continue reading →

Boris Johnson is being urged to forget his plan to scrap the Department for International Development on the grounds that money would go to the wrong nations. The DfID is being merged with the Foreign Office but whereas the DfID … Continue reading →

This won’t play well with the Tory backbenchers: after u-turn after u-turn over Covid-19 and schools, their government is promising …Continue reading → Sunak threatens tax raid in yet another Tory u-turn

This will fuel rumours that the Tories have been using the same algorithm to boost the rich and harm the …Continue reading → Has Boris Johnson’s ‘mutant’ algorithm migrated from education to planning?

This 30 August 2020 video from the USA says about itself: Americans refusing to stop drinking bleach is very 2020. Ana Kasparian and Emma Vigeland discuss on The Young Turks. “Following 46 cases of bleach ingestions in the North Texas … Continue reading →

Apparently The Guardian reckons Keir Starmer’s Labour Party has gained 26 points in the opinion polls to draw level with the …Continue reading → Hysteria as ONE poll puts Starmer Labour level with Tories. Why isn’t he 20 points ahead?

By Robert A. Vella The United States is a nation tearing itself apart just like it did before the Civil War.  On one side stands a diverse majority compelling America to live up to its foundational precepts of equality, democracy, … Continue reading →

Did Theresa May intend our police to be toothless, back when she cut law enforcement numbers by more than 20,000 …Continue reading → Why haven’t police arrested Britain First thugs who raided migrant-housing hotel?

It seems Matt Hancock doesn’t think care home residents have suffered enough. Hancock and the Tory government promised regular Covid-19 …Continue reading → Is Matt Hancock denying care homes Covid-19 tests to deliberately harm residents?