There is something rotten in the state of the UK and the man at the top of it is absent, reportedly in Scotland, uttering perhaps that “fair is foul and foul is fair” while bouncing his bonny baby on his knee. We were warned about Boris Johnson and yet the British electorate handed him a […]
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has sacked his shadow education secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey for sharing an article containing “an antisemitic conspiracy theory”. Starmer’s intervention follows a call from the Board of Deputies of British Jews (BoD) who condemned Long-Bailey’s action and told her to apologise for the tweet and delete it. Long-Bailey’s tweet called actor […]
When the first wave of the pandemic hit the UK, the government introduced special support measures for coronavirus and the homeless. Rough sleepers got hotel rooms as councils worked to get everyone off the street. The councils’ action came in response to the government’s special homelessness advisor, Dame Louise Casey, introducing the ‘get everyone in […]
The government has pledged £76m to fund measures to support domestic abuse survivors, children and rough sleepers during the coronavirus crisis. The package includes money to provide safe spaces and fund helplines for “the hidden thousands for whom the current lockdown has been nothing short of an inescapable nightmare,” said the justice secretary Robert Buckland, […]
The NHS medical director has made a very public and impassioned plea for frontline workers to be given protective equipment, amid reports NHS staff are considering refusing to work without adequate PPE as stocks dwindle. Prof Stephen Powis warned the government, during today’s (April 18) Downing Street coronavirus daily briefing, that sufficient PPE must be […]