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 […]
In the image above, a resident and a cat are evacuated from the Taplow Tower residential block as a precautionary measure following concerns over the type of cladding used on the outside of the building on […]
Earlier today The Guardian confirmed that there were ‘at least three’ other tower blocks that have the same combustible cladding used in the refurbishment of Grenfell Tower last year. And at 4.40pm, the office of Theresa May […]
In the image above, you see a rather perplexed looking Francois Bayrou (MoDem), Jean-Yves Le Drian (Socialist) and Marielle de Sarnez (MoDem), all leaving the Elysee Palace this morning. Both Bayrou and de Sarnez have […]
‘The French electorate has been more extreme than any other. It managed to eradicate virtually the entire political establishment in a short sequence of elections’. Wolfgang Munchau, The Financial Times, Monday 19th June 2017 Vox […]
According to today’s FT, Philip Hammond has said that a criminal investigation and public inquiry will look at whether building regulations were breached during the 2016 renovations. He also said that he ‘would only consider […]
On 5th June, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain and Egypt all broke diplomatic ties with Qatar. In the image above, you can see the Saudi Arabian king sitting on the right and […]
Macedonia. Probably a country you’ve never really paid any attention to. It used to be part of the former country of Yugoslavia until it seceded peacefully in 1991 after the fall of communism. That same […]
