Dominic Cummings was still under fire today after yesterday’s press conference from Boris Johnson which left unanswered questions and a feeling of dissatisfaction with the performance of the Prime Minister. As a result, Dominic Cummings fronted up to the press at a press conference at 4-30pm today in the
BREAKING NEWS Following on from the revelations about the senior advisor, Dominic Cummings, Boris Johnson is fighting a rear-guard action to avoid sacking him. Grant Shapps, the Secretary of State for Transport appeared on the Andrew Marr show on the BBC this morning and gave an interview of toe-curling, cringe-worthy,
I was going to tell you about the litany of cock-ups, mistakes, illegal application of the law and so on, but there really are too many to choose from so I will look at the politics of the situation here in the UK. It really is developing into an almighty
LionRed The author is based in the UK at the moment (ex-pat Kiwi) and travels the world as a consultant in developing countries working on business development. As a result, he is totally cynical about NGOs, the UN and WHO etc. He is regularly exposed to contact with governments and
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Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com By late last year support for the Scottish National Party’s independence movement was polling at 50%, I suspect reflecting Brexit fatigue. But with the economic depression ahead, I suspect the SNP support will dwindle. Such crises invariably see a conservative voter response with no
LionRed The author is based in the UK at the moment (ex-pat Kiwi) and travels the world as a consultant in developing countries working on business development. As a result, he is totally cynical about NGOs, the UN and WHO etc. He is regularly exposed to contact with governments and
It’s a hallmark of the nomenklaturas and authoritarian elites that they conduct themselves with autocratic disregard for the odious rules they impose on the hoi polloi. No matter whether it’s early mediaeval popes shagging anything that moved, Communist elites living in imperial splendour while millions starve, or finger-wagging
As we’ve reported at The BFD, even while China was still lying to the world about the virus outbreak in Wuhan – thus, inadvertently or not, allowing the virus to spread unchecked around the globe – Chinese companies were quietly pillaging soon-to-be-desperately-needed medical supplies. Indeed, leaked intelligence suggests that Beijing’s
LionRed The author is based in the UK at the moment (ex-pat Kiwi) and travels the world as a consultant in developing countries working on business development. As a result, he is totally cynical about NGOs, the UN and WHO etc. He is regularly exposed to contact with governments and
LionRed The author is based in the UK at the moment (ex-pat Kiwi) and travels the world as a consultant in developing countries working on business development. As a result, he is totally cynical about NGOs, the UN and WHO etc. He is regularly exposed to contact with governments and
Anzac Day combines many of the elements of our shared national life which the left loathes. It celebrates the primacy of the nation-state and the nation’s sovereignty and independence maintained through the defence of its borders. It marks our closeness to our allies, with whom we are like-minded and
LionRed The author is based in the UK at the moment (ex-pat Kiwi) and travels the world as a consultant in developing countries working on business development. As a result, he is totally cynical about NGOs, the UN and WHO etc. He is regularly exposed to contact with governments and
LionRed The author is based in the UK at the moment (ex-pat Kiwi) and travels the world as a consultant in developing countries working on business development. As a result, he is totally cynical about NGOs, the UN and WHO etc. He is regularly exposed to contact with governments and
UK television and radio media are just as left-wing as they are in New Zealand. The Spectator highlights two interviews, each carried out very differently, on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme. Health Secretary Matt Hancock, of the Conservative party, got a roasting – as one would expect. The National Party,
Revealed: Hero NHS nurses Luis from Portugal and Jenny from Invercargill who Boris Johnson said ‘stood by my ICU bedside for 48 hours when things could have gone either way’ In the footage the Prime Minister paid tribute to the NHS, saying it saved his life He thanked the ‘utterly
