Tories and Labour

A discussion on policy this was not. What was clear in the first debate was that for any of the four candidates to shine, they will need to debate in English. Mon dieu. Anyone who tuned in to Wednesday’s Conservative Party leadership debate expecting to see a serious policy debate…

A Black Lives Matter protester is being applauded as a hero for carrying an injured rival demonstrator to safety after violence erupted at demonstrations in London on Saturday.An image captured by a Reuters news agency photographer shows Patrick Hutchinson, a personal trainer and grandfather, rescuing a man believed to be a far-right…

Nigel Farage has left the building. His contract with the radio station LBC was not renewed following his offensive comments on Twitter, likening Black Lives Matter protesters who pulled down the Edw… Read More

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Millions of people in the United States are losing their employment-based health insurance amidst the COVID-19 global pandemic -- hit by the double blow of losing their job and losing affordable access to health care. Thank goodness we live in Canada -- right? Wrong. We as Canadians have long prided ourselves…

Black Lives Matter and Indigenous justice movements call on us to confront the spread of policing throughout social life. The growing movements raise concerns over the self-serving relationships between criminal justice agencies and post-secondary institutions. Particularly troubling, this includes the employment of active police officers as faculty in departments like…

That Britain’s relative prosperity today is built on the profits from slavery is an uncomfortable but undeniable truth.Many of the UK’s major modern cities owe much of their wealth and development to commerce that depended on the inhumane practice for centuries, before slavery was finally abolished throughout the British Colonies in 1833. Which…

Image copyright Reuters Downing Street has defended Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick after Labour accused him of avoiding scrutiny over his approval of a £1bn property scheme.No 10 said it was "appropriate" for a junior minister to answer Labour's urgent question on the matter.Mr Jenrick approved the east London scheme 14…

When the slave trader Edward Colstons statue was sent tumbling into the harbour in Bristol on Sunday, it was easy to anticipate that the event would be folded into Britains febrile culture war surrou… Read More