Boris Johnson is a liar – it’s the thing that we can be most certain about when it comes to our current Prime Minister. He has twice lost jobs specifically for lying – first for inventing an academic's quote about 14th century royalty when working at The Times (leading the academic - his godfather -... Continue Reading →
On Friday the Tory MP Sir Christopher Chope made headlines by objecting to a Private Member's Bill on Female Genital Mutilation. The proposed law would make it easier for judges to remove children from parents who have put them through FGM, and has already been approved in full by the House of Lords. However as... Continue Reading →
Obama-Trump voters are a counter-intuitive phenomenon, given that, on a superficial level at least, the two presidents have very different styles. Obama had the positive vibe ("Yes we can"), whereas Trump spent a lot of time on the paranoid, racist fantasy that Obama was born in Kenya. Speaking in October 2016, Noam Chomsky pointed out that... Continue Reading →
As the near-impossibility of putting a practical Brexit into action becomes increasingly clear, public support for a second referendum on EU membership is increasing. A protest in London last month calling for a second referendum (a 'People's Vote') attracted a reported 700,000 participants. The Brexit campaign was led mainly by former private schoolboys, including the... Continue Reading →
Elizabeth Warren has spoken about how tales of the family’s Native American heritage played a part in her childhood, saying that "Being Native American has been part of my story, I guess, since the day I was born." The evidence suggests that Warren always saw her Native American history as part of her identity, not... Continue Reading →
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