Month: January 2019

Writing in his memoirs the French wartime leader Charles De Gaulle said about la perfide Albion and his distrust of the British establishment which led to his refusal to permit ...

Joanna Cherry QC MP By Russell Bruce Newsnet has so far identified five maybe six plots aimed at MPs taking control of Parliament with the aim of – well that’s ...

Supermarkets and drinks companies have been attempting to block a recycling scheme planned by the Scottish Government, prompting campaigners to urge them to “shut up” and not “peddle myths”. Asda, ...

Well, I was initially stumped as to how I could possibly top the truly bonkers, paranoid hysteria of the "Beware The Liars!" title of Peter A Bell's latest blogpost, which ...

Theresa May has got some nerve.  I know that as statements of the obvious go, that's right up there with "the Pope is a Catholic" and "Rory Stewart is from ...

The extremely sharp and perceptive New Statesman writer Stephen Bush buries some of his political insight in a daily email newsletter (because, we assume, his fax machine doesn’t work, you ...

Sarah Glynn from the Scottish Solidarity with Kurdistan campaign group visited Strasbourg to meet with Kurdish hunger strikers. These videos were recorded on 25th January in the Kurdish Community Centre ...

Listened to Corbyn and then Leslie Laird this morning – talk about playing to the gallery – wait and see – that is their answer – frightened rabbits is my ...

UK politics is stuck fast in the mud, going nowhere, and the casualties are mounting. Whether on Brexit, independence or anything else, we’ve all become so dug-in to our positions that some ...

Leading Scottish universities and the national police force have refused to sever links with a Chinese technology giant despite mounting fears their devices may be used to spy for Beijing. ...