News Round-Up
10 January 2025
Britain “Came Within Whisker of Blackouts” Yesterday
9 January 2025
by Will Jones
Labour’s War Against the Past
9 January 2025
Leo Varadkar has resigned as Ireland's Prime Minister and leader of his Fine Gael party following his shock defeat in two 'progressive' constitutional referendums.
MPs on the Right of the Tory party have held talks with moderates about uniting behind Penny Mordaunt to replace Rishi Sunak, hammering out a pact to neutralise her woke views on gender.
Former Neighbours actress and pop star Holly Valance has declared she is voting Reform at the next election, saying she hoped the insurgent party would blow the Tories "to smithereens".
Police officers in Germany pulled a 16 year-old girl out of class and told her to stop posting Smurf-themed AfD-friendly content to TikTok, a move defended by a Minister as "preventing her from committing a crime".
Dutch Right-wing anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders has abandoned his bid to become the Netherlands' next Prime Minister despite his party's dramatic election win in November.
Governments of every political stripe have complained that the civil service obstructs their plans. Dr David McGrogan looks at how a little known legal ruling gets in the way of bring civil servants to heel.
Things are changing fast in Hong Kong. The slippery slope to tyranny has recently proved to be both steep and very slippery since the betrayal by the Chinese Government of its promise to keep the territory free.
George Galloway and Lee Anderson are exactly what Westminster has been claiming to want and need for the past 15 years. And yet both have now been made political outlaws for patently obscure reasons, says J. Sorel.
Keir Starmer barged into Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle's tiny office ahead of Hoyle's announcement of bending Parliament's rules to help Labour, while Sue Gray lurked nearby and Chris Bryant stalled in the chamber.
Together Declaration, a prominent anti-lockdown and pro-free-speech pressure group, has announced its intention to support candidates who align with its principles in elections this year.
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