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Is a U.K. court about to declare that civil servants must obey 'international law' over the clear will of Parliament? That's a very real prospect as a key hearing takes place this week, says Dr David McGrogan.
Nigel Farage has declared he will stand to be a Reform MP as he takes over as Reform leader from Richard Tice. A former Tory Cabinet Minister says it's "bad news for the Conservatives".
Dr Roger Watson explores the weird and wonderful world of rejected petitions to Parliament, from serious issues like healthcare to letting "Belinda the cat back in Tesco".
Sir John Redwood – the veteran MP who headed Margaret Thatcher's policy unit in the 1980s and has opposed Net Zero and lockdown policies – has announced that he will stand down at the General Election.
"Surely Parliament will get the chance to vote on the WHO Pandemic Treaty," has been a common refrain. Not according to the Government, which repeatedly refused to assure MPs they would get a say on the binding agreement.
Fourteen Australian Senators and MPs have written to the Prime Minister demanding that he reject the impending WHO Pandemic Treaty and amendments to the International Health Regulations as violations of national autonomy.
As former Minister Kwasi Kwarteng prepares to step down at the next election, Paul Hicks writes to him to suggest that now is the time to act without fear or favour on Net Zero, the vaccines and the WHO pandemic treaty.
We've gone from pulling out all the stops during Covid to try to save the frail to contemplating euthanasia, where we'll bump them off. Shouldn't we at least have a vote on it, asks Nick Rendell.
Opposition to Net Zero has belatedly been pushing through, but there is a long way to go. The MPs now standing up for realism could start by coming clean about the inner workings of the green blob, says Ben Pile.
NHS founder Aneurin Bevan was a demagogue typical of the period, says J. Sorel in his review of Nye at the National Theatre. "Bevan, an early ally of Oswald Mosley, really could’ve ended up in either camp."
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