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THE UPSIDE DOWN: Wetworld – the Most Unlikely Thing in the Universe
We live in strange times. Familiarity is draining from our lives; old political alignments are dissolving; the weather is unpredictable and violent. But perhaps we should try harder to embrace the strangeness: after all, we are made from the most unlikely thing in the universe.
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What is Nigel Farage’s New Brexit Party?
The former UKIP leader has promised to wipe out the Conservatives if they don’t deliver Brexit, but what else do we know about his new political venture?
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Special Counsel Mueller’s Team just dropped a Huge Clue about the Russia Probe during a Closed-door Hearing
The revelation that the special counsel’s office is still unraveling mysteries at “the heart” of the Russia investigation seems to contradict the recent suggestion by acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker that the inquiry is “close to being completed.”
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Communities Unite to Defend Against the Far Right
Londoners united on a chilly Sunday night to attend the inaugural meeting of the London Anti-Fascist Assembly.
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The Prehistoric Common Market: Golden Finds on a German Hillside
As archaeologists are increasingly discovering, humanity has always been interconnected, relying on the exchange of ideas to function.
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Britain is in Crisis – is a New Centrist Party the Solution?
Does the UK need more centrism or has it been the cause of the current malaise facing the nation? Since the EU Referendum in June 2016, Westminster has regularly been awash with rumours of a new centrist party. With polls showing increasing disaffection with the leadership of the traditional parties and distrust in wider politics,…
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Top Law Firm Gets Injunction as Lawyer Jailed for Sex Assault
Gagging order granted by High Court relates to alleged incidents involving women at the company in London, Munich and New York. The ‘magic circle’ law firm Linklaters has been granted a temporary injunction preventing a former executive from revealing details of alleged ‘struggles’ facing women at the company. The UK injunction, granted by a High…
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Theresa May is Flying Flight Brexit into a Crash Landing
As Theresa May travels to Belfast and Brussels, time is running out. Article 50 needs to be extended or the UK crashes out with No Deal. After all – it didn’t say “Brace! Brace! Brace!” on the side of that bus.
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The Lessons of Ukraine’s EuroMaidan are Vital to the UK as we Stumble toward Brexit
The conflict in Ukraine came with the suppression of hopeful young people waving the blue and yellow flag of the EU. They saw in that symbol a sign of hope that we have all but lost sight of in the UK.
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Phone Hacking: Time the Police Stepped In
Evidence against executives and editors is piling up in the civil courts, but newspapers are just buying their way out of trouble. The right place for this is the criminal courts, which means the Met must act
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The Far Right American Funding Behind a Grass Roots Student Movement
Turning Point USA is funded by a number of wealthy right-wing businessmen. This week Turning Point UK tried to launch a similar pseudo-grassroots young conservative movement in Britain.
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Kremlin Social Media Backing Jacob Rees-Mogg (2018)
Social Media research shows British MP Jacob Ree-Mogg’s #Moggmentum campaign is being pushed by accounts linked to a powerful Kremlin disinformation operation.
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‘Yellow Vest’ Protesters Run Rampant in London and Attack Police Station
With Brexit weeks away, serious questions need to be asked about both the Metropolitan Police and Government’s approach towards increasingly violent ‘Yellow Vest’ protests.
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Snowmaggedon Brexit: An Inch of White Stuff Brings Britain to a Halt — Tell Me Again About No Deal
Snow has shut schools, emptied supermarkets and left motorists stranded. A glimpse of what No Deal Brexit might bring? You ain’t seen nothing yet, says Otto English
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A Message to You, Rudy
While it’s sometimes fairly lazy to find a contemporary angle to finish on, Rudolf’s story does bring to mind several political leaders as of late, unable to take the reins and engage with a fracturing, divided populace.
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‘No One is Coming to Save Me’ – Can Prisoners Become their own Life Coaches and Escape our Failing Jails?
Hardeep Matharu meets the charity helping inmates to think about their lives and how to transform them and explores why we can’t wait for the Government to make prisons places of change.
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‘Victimised Twice Over’: Supreme Court Rules Against the Wrongly Convicted
The Supreme Court’s ruling that victims of miscarriages of justice can only claim compensation if they can prove their innocence ‘beyond reasonable doubt’ is a blow to the idea of justice, according to campaigners.
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KILLER FACTS: Islamophobia and Brexit
To accompany Faisal Khan’s exploration of the reasons behind the spike in Islamophobic hate crimes after the Brexit referendum, here are some key statistics compiled from official sources:
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Brexit has become a Doomsday Cult
Planet Brexit can be reached, the spaceship is coming, we simply have to extract the metal bits from our bras and check that we have set our watches correctly.
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Islamophobia is Real – and Russia is Promoting It
Faisal Khan examines the rise of hate crimes against British Muslims and what is causing it.
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Sleight of Hand: Beware of the Brexit Referendum Three-Card Trick
Amidst the growing clamour for a second referendum to break the parliamentary impasse around her Brexit deal, some Whitehall insiders are claiming that Theresa May could use a clever ‘three-card-trick’ to force her unpopular deal through.
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Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson Adviser Steve Bannon Implicated in Mueller Investigation
As Steve Bannon is identified of the ‘High-Ranking’ Trump Campaign official in the Roger Stone indictment, the question of Russian collusion not only moves upwards to the President, but across the Atlantic
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Mueller Looks to London – How Roger Stone’s Arrest by the FBI spells Trouble for Nigel Farage and Brexit
The arrest of Trump’s long time political advisor for his contact with Wikileaks and Russian hacking of the Democratic Party has two key leads to the UK and Brexit
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Is Boris Johnson Betraying Britain with his Bannon-Style Paranoia about the Deep State?
There’s little doubt Boris Johnson was inspired in his deep state rhetoric by Steve Bannon…. The problem for Boris Johnson is that Steve Bannon is a key subject of the FBI investigation into Russian interference.
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What is Behind the Rise of the ‘WHITE RIGHT’?
In the past decade, 71% of the 387 murders committed by extremists in the US had been perpetrated by the far right, while Muslims were responsible for 26%
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New MENTAL HEALTH Review ‘has raised FALSE HOPES in Minds and Hearts of many Black People’
The Modernising Mental Health Act report fails to offer a solution to what is one of the most glaring problems in the mental health service – the vast number of Afro-Caribbeans who are sectioned compared to the majority white population.
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The BBC on the Edge of the Abyss 2: THE ARGUMENT
The BBC has failed the license fee-payer in its core duty to inform when it comes to three of the biggest stories of recent years. Peter Jukes explores why should this concern each and every one of us.
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Mail on Sunday Phone Hacking – ‘Smoking Gun’ Emails Quoted Messages to Top Editor
THE MAIL on Sunday is today embroiled in a growing phone hacking crisis after explosive emails obtained by Byline Investigates show one of the paper’s top editors receiving transcripts of actor Sadie Frost’s voicemails.
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Travel Down Under Like A Sydneysider
“I start every day with a flat white at my local café. Then, when I get home from work, I pop down to the beach for a sunset swim. Living is Sydney is like being on permanent vacation.”
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The BBC on the Edge of the Abyss 1: The Facts
2018 has been a troubling year for those who support public service broadcasting and the national broadcaster’s remit to inform, not just to entertain.
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‘Political Content Removed’ as UK Treasury Minister Met ‘Dark Money’ US Think Tanks
Unearthed reveal Treasury minister Liz Truss met with representatives of five US libertarian groups at the UK taxpayers cost. But her political remarks have been censored
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Britain’s NUCLEAR POWER Programme on the BLINK
Britain’s £70 billion nuclear programme is in serious trouble with contractors threatening to pull out of four planned nuclear power stations and a huge recruitment crisis to get enough trained staff.
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HYPER TRUE CRIME: Reformed ‘Crooks’ Create and Star in Drama to Tackle Offending
Society must understand the human story behind crime to deal with it, according to the creators of Crooks.
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Racism in the Press: Lessons of the Raheem Sterling Case
Calls for change from within the press are welcome but will make no lasting difference – the only workable remedy is effective, independent regulation that takes racism seriously, says Brian Cathcart
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Senior Execs in Global Oil Traders Implicated in BRAZILIAN BRIBERY scandal
“This isn’t the first time we’ve discovered commodities traders using questionable middlemen to broker shady deals, and unless they start changing their approach to corruption, it won’t be the last.”
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Democracy isn’t just about VOTING – Lord Adebowale on the limits of the British ballot box
Lord Victor Adebowale, chief executive of the charity Turning Point and crossbench peer in the House of Lords, questions whether Britain actually is a democracy. I am sitting and writing this in a great bastion of the British Establishment, the walls thick with books describing the lives of earls, dukes and the entitled going back…
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Danger in the Gulf: Expats in Legal Jeopardy
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office report (2014) found a 30 per cent rise in the number of Britons arrested in the UAE since 2012
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Venezuela is Suffering an UNPRECEDENTED Humanitarian Crisis.
Faisal Khan examines the crisis in Venezuela, what has caused it and what might be done to help resolve it. Venezuela is currently facing an unprecedented humanitarian crisis. From being Latin America’s richest country, it is now one of South America’s most impoverished. As Moisés Naím and Francisco Toro, writing in Foreign Affairs put it: ‘Its…
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BUDGET Dolce Vita
Kamin Mohammadi introduces her regular series on the Bella Figura Method Ten years ago I was stuck in a rut. It was a glamorous rut, but a rut nonetheless. I had finally got my dream job in London, but, in crashing contradiction to all my expectations, it did not make me happy. What’s more, as well…
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When David BOWIE Took the TRANS-SIBERIAN Express
How the late-lamented rock star conned his record agency into paying for a trip across the USSR, and how he was saved from arrest by two Russian railway guards When I first saw this picture of a young innocent David Bowie with uneven teeth beautifully lit by the sunlight streaming through a carriage window of…
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Who are the ‘YELLOW VESTS’ behind the Biggest Protests in France for 50 Years? Are the FAR RIGHT and PUTIN Co-Opting?
Who are the ‘Gilets Jaunes’? What are their aims? And is anyone sponsoring or organising them?
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FOOTBALL and CATHARSIS
A study of Aristotelian “catharsis” and the plays of Bertolt Brecht should be obligatory for football managers, argues Alexei Sayle.
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Is it Time to Abolish Child Prisons?
Criminal justice charities, parliamentarians and bereaved families have united to launch a campaign to ‘End Child Imprisonment’.
