Well, naughty V3, if you discount Slovakia, as they are not considered to be flouting the EU imposed refugee quotas; Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic are though. According to the FT, if they don’t […]
‘I have decided that I will send back to Sejm (lower house of parliament), which means I will veto the bill, on the Supreme Court, as well as the one about the National Council of […]
‘We have known each other now for more than four years. Half of the time we have been together: the other half I have had to spend in prison as the result of our friendship. […]
In the burrows of the Nightmare Where Justice naked is; Time watches from the shadow And coughs when you would kiss. WH Auden, ‘As I walked out one Evening’ As I was driving […]
‘For each certified genius, there are at least a hundred great people who helped achieve such outstanding results’. Cathy O’Neil, Bloomberg View In her article, ‘A Mathematician’s Secret: We’re not all geniuses’, Cathy O’Neil talks […]
‘I’m not a spokesperson for the L.G.B.T. community. I don’t want to be branded as a gay minister, just as my colleagues don’t want to be primarily defined as being straight. All I want is […]
Last week, Chinese President Xi Jinping was visiting Hong Kong on the 20th anniversary of the handover of Hong Kong (a former British colony), to Chinese rule in 1997. It was the first time that the Chinese […]
This weekend was the annual Glastonbury music festival and there were some unlikely performers. Jeremy Corbyn was a surprise star of the show on Saturday when he introduced the US rap duo ‘Run the Jewels’. […]
It is ridiculous of anyone to ‘accuse’ people of politicizing the Grenfell disaster. Politics is inarguably at the centre of it, and those responsible should not be allowed to shirk their responsibility in this situation. […]
This weekend I was at a school in Ham, South West London, to take my son Oscar to a chess tournament. When I got there, I saw this quote written on the dining room wall […]
