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As expected, MPs have voted in favour of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill by a resounding majority of 400 to 175 and the Tories remain the party that is significantly split on the matter – 136 opposed against 127…
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A Party at Forking Paths? Featured
The Conservatives in the 1980s were hated by various sections of society. Thatcher became the milk-snatcher and the unsympathetic union nemesis to many. Tory MPS and Conservative voters supported her as a Boadicea at the head of the privatization, anti-left…
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When I Were A Lad Featured
The government’s decision to scrap GCSES in key subjects has been criticised. As anyone from the last handful of generations will tell you, exams were a lot harder back in their day, initiating a Python-esque farce of generational one-upmanship. The…
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Eggheads is just one of those shows that you always end up watching. You get home, sit down, whack on the tele and there it is: Eggheads. Can you be bothered to change onto the dire news on BBC One?…
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So a referendum has been promised. Cameron says the British people will “have their say” should the Tories win the next election. Many of course view this as a “weak” move from a leader unable to control the internal squabbling…
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So HMV has bought in the administrators in perhaps one of the less surprising casualties of these troubled economic times. The 4,350 jobs at risk because of the company’s very 21st Century problems are of course a major concern but…
The failure of the sick President-elect of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, to show up yesterday for his necessary swearing in as the nation’s President at Venezuela’s Supreme Court was emblematic of a man who has cared little for law or procedure…
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Today’s news that Westminster Council is to cut health benefits for obese people who do not exercise regularly has irked quite a large amount of people. Many believe that the decision has a fat chance of making any change and…
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With a triple dip most likely to come, and having spent years of the recession era counting costs and losing jobs, the British people could hardly be blamed for hoping the government would help them in their struggles wherever possible.…
When the “pleb-gate” saga initially broke out, I wrote on this very paper how Mitchell’s becoming irate at the end of a long frustrating day was not a particularly interesting news story. The alleged use of the word “pleb” was…