ANDREW PIERCE: Shamed Lord Truscott hunts down Covid spivs
Here’s how to help people impacted by Covid-19By Andrew Pierce for the Daily Mail Published: 01:16 BST, 20 April 2020 | Updated: 01:16 BST, 20 April 2020 Truscott (pictured) resigned from the Labour Party after he was secretly taped offering to assist in getting amendments on legislation before the Upper…
It’s not enough to ‘win the argument’, you’ve got to actually do something
When we used to care about such things, a lot of people voted for the Greens or the Labour Party or the Social Democrats, in the hope that they might bring a "progressive" twist to the next government. Certainly anyone of my acquaintance who voted for any such party had…
bubmagApril 19, 2020
Why the Murdochs backed Donald Trump’s COVID-19 denialism
Sean Hannity, one of Fox News's biggest stars, said that the coronavirus was a "new hoax" in March. | Fox News Earlier this month, Fox News aired a one-hour special, ‘America Together’, that featured some of its biggest stars. In a radical departure for the fiercely partisan network, the show…
bubmagApril 17, 2020
Why Keir Starmer is right to push for a debate on the government’s lockdown exit strategy
Why does Keir Starmer keep banging on about an exit strategy? The Labour leader’s first demand of the government, after he formed his own shadow cabinet Covid-19 committee was that it publish a plan for how to exit the lockdown. Now he’s written a letter to locum prime minister Dominic…
bubmagApril 15, 2020
Can A Recovering Boris Johnson Begin to Remake Brexit-Ravaged Britain?
On Easter Sunday, Boris Johnson was discharged from the hospital, relieving a corrosive anxiety that Britain might lose its prime minister to coronavirus. Ten days after testing positive for the virus, Johnson was driven from Downing Street, across the River Thames, to St. Thomas’ hospital, where he spent three nights…
bubmagApril 14, 2020
Why Keir Starmer’s response to a leaked party report into anti-Semitism is the right one
The Labour Party has been thrown into uproar by a leaked report, prepared by party officials in the final days of Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership, which makes a series of headline-grabbing claims. Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner, the party’s new leader and deputy, have announced an independent inquiry into both the…
bubmagApril 13, 2020
‘Devastating Impact of Virus’ Cited by UK Political Parties Amid Urgent Calls to Recall Parliament
On 25 March, Britain's parliament was suspended over concerns that close proximity might result in MPs contracting COVID-19 and go on to spread the respiratory disease among their constituencies.Cross-party demands gained momentum on Saturday for an urgent “virtual” recall of the UK parliament amid the escalating situation with the coronavirus…
bubmagApril 12, 2020
Boris Johnson should extend EU trade talks amid coronavirus disruption, poll says
A significant majority of voters want Boris Johnson to extend trade talks with the EU, which have been interrupted by the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new survey. Some 47 per cent of those questioned by BMG for The Independent said the prime minister should ditch his 31 December deadline…
bubmagApril 11, 2020