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When is ‘sponging’ acceptable?

Much of the Britain's population fears not having enough money to pay skyrocketing bills - mortgages or rent, food and basic necessities. Yet the former+1 PM, Boris Johnson, apparently has an endless supply of willing donors to keep him and his ever expanding family in the life style to which he wants to be accustomed. He has just been handed another £10,000 worth of accommodation for the month of October, even though he part owns three properties in London! He already earns remarkable amounts of money for the occasional talk, to glorify them with the title 'lecture' implies intellectual rigour and argument. His will be the usual flippant, self congratulatory nonsense that he espoused when PM.

JD
4 Nov 2022
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November is Islamophobia awareness month

November is Islamopbobia Awareness Month and the horrifying petrol bombing at the Manston migration centre, proves that when inflammatory rhetoric is used by politicians and the media, then the result can literally be incendiary. The bomber's Facebook page was filled with hate-filled rants against migrants and Muslims. Politicians must be held to account for their words. They stoke fear and anger that is often misplaced and can be dangerous.

JD
3 Nov 2022
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When anticipated humility became a blame-fest

Suella Braverman approached the Dispatch Box on Monday (October 31st) faced with such a catalogue of complaints laid against her that most politicians would have shown contrition and resigned. But Braverman envelopes herself in a cloak of self esteem and mock humility and derides criticism as the mistakes of others' misunderstanding of her 'alternative facts'.

JD
1 Nov 2022
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Time for an apology?

When even the Levelling Up Secretary, Michael Gove, says the Tory Party "made the wrong decision this summer about the path we should take" then we know we are due an apology!

JD
30 Oct 2022
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