News Round-Up
14 January 2025
Starmer Throws Reeves’s Future into Doubt
14 January 2025
by Will Jones
Rumble has rejected a “dangerous” demand by MPs to demonetise Russell Brand’s channel, as it vowed to shun “a cancel culture mob” – and issued a stinging rebuke to the baying politicians.
China is engaged in a "whole of state" assault on the U.K. and the Government’s approach has been "completely inadequate", according to a report by Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee.
The 'New Britain' constitution cooked up by Labour's Gordon Brown threatens to end Britain's parliamentary democracy by embedding the power of the civil service and sub-national Government, says J Sorel.
Whatever your views of Boris Johnson, ejecting from Parliament the man responsible for the Government's current majority is a victory for the Blob that stains our democracy.
After suffering the ignominy of a rejected petition to Parliament, Dr Roger Watson takes a look at the other petitions that have been cast upon the proverbial scrap heap and finds an unexpected world of entertainment.
Former PM Boris Johnson is resigning as an MP after receiving a letter from the Privileges Committee informing him that it has found him guilty of misleading Parliament over the 'partygate' lockdown gatherings.
Parliament is crumbling and in need of major renovation, says Laura Dodsworth. And it's not just the building.
Theresa May became Prime Minister in July 2016 and no rise to power has been as swift or unanimous. May did not have a policy but a personality – and it inaugurated a new era which we have not yet left.
It would have been helpful if some of the MPs attending last week’s parliamentary debate on the proposed pandemic treaty had read it. Then they would recognise that the WHO's new legal powers are not a 'conspiracy theory'.
The looming WHO pandemic treaty, that would give the Director General power to impose legally binding countermeasures on the world, was debated in Parliament yesterday – but with no sign the Government is concerned.
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