2nd September, 2020 by Stuart Littlewood People in the UK are shocked that the government is thinking of recruiting Tony Abbott (pictured above), whose time as Australia’s prime minister was hardly a roaring success, to act as Britain’s new trade envoy. He was ousted in 2015 by his own party for failing to provide Australia with …

The Treasury now has to rely on epidemiological guesswork not economic forecasting Getty Images 25 September, 2020 by Graham Stewart P ity Anneliese Dodds, the shadow chancellor, whose task it was to strike a sour note in reply to Rishi Sunak’s winter economic plan which extends bounce back loans and replaces the furlough scheme with a job …

Covid rules tighten in the UK, with talk of future curfews and national lockdown 24 September, 2020 by Samuel May The numbers of positive tests – henceforth to be known as ‘cases’ apparently – has recently EXPLODED, coincidentally after a lot of testing has been done. Has the false positive rate of the tests been taken into …

21 September, 2020 by The Duran A second national lockdown would be a complete and utter catastrophe for our country. We have reached the point now where the cure has become worse than the disease itself. Source: https://theduran.com/say-no-to-another-lockdown/  

“It is the Lilliputian court custom that men seeking political office demonstrate their agility in rope dancing, among other things. How long and how skilfully a candidate can dance upon a rope determines his tenure in office” – Gulliver’s travels. Today Mr Hancock and associates face a similar challenge in mental gymnastics, the equivalent of a …

A MANDATORY coronavirus vaccine programme would not go down well with Britons, a poll has shown, as voters said they would “rather take our chances” with the disease than be forcefully injected. 10 August, 2020 by LAURA O’CALLAGHAN A recent survey by King’s College London and Ipsos MORI showed only …

The Russiagate campaign was the first phase of an effort to break President Trump from his commitment to “end the endless wars”—”We are not the policemen of the world,” he told West Point graduates two months ago. Yet, dangerous lunacy is afoot in the ongoing efforts of the War Hawks to prepare Americans for more …

7 July, 2020 by  Andrew Korybko American political analyst The UK’s imposition of so-called “humanitarian sanctions” against 49 individuals from Myanmar, North Korea, Russia, and Saudi Arabia that it claims are supposedly involved in “human rights abuses” is nothing more than London following its “big brother’s” lead from “across the pond” in the post-Brexit era, proving …

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Minister for Digital, Matt Hancock, addresses the All-Party Parliamentary Group on the Fourth Industrial Revolution’s (4IR) Autumn reception Published 16 October 2017 From: Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport and The Rt Hon Matt Hancock MP …

The UK publication The Week points out that, for the moment, trade between the UK and EU is tariff-free. TAP – That can’t all be bad although this post seems to think it is. 30 June, 2020 by Brian Cloughley The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is no longer united, as most recently illustrated by the vastly dissimilar tactics …