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UK Politics
Playing Hardball with China Works
Andreas Fulda University of Nottingham Global attitudes towards the People’s Republic of China (PRC) are hardening. In 2019, the European Union declared the PRC a “systemic rival” amid rising trade tensions. In May 2020, the White House published a paper that described the US’s competitive approach to the
Face of the Day
So now Google has officially DELETED Churchill but kept Hitler and Stalin. Let that sink in. pic.twitter.com/qn6llQpUKX — Avi Yemini ???? (@OzraeliAvi) June 14, 2020
Letter from London 11 June 2020
In view of the anti-statue uprising now taking place in the UK I thought we could start with a little quiz about statues and whether we should destroy them. 1. This statue is to be found in Parliament Square and the person honoured was responsible for the death by
News You Can Trust from Lambton Quay and the World
Information Satire Golf record attempt. Later today the beloved national leader of New Zealand will make an attempt on the world record for the numbers of holes in one in a round of golf. She is hoping to improve on the record of 18 shots, currently held by our good
Sadiq Khan Is Following Big Brother’s Game Plan
“One could not learn history from architecture any more than one could learn it from books. Statues, inscriptions, memorial stones, the names of streets – anything that might throw light upon the past had been systematically altered” – George Orwell, 1984. Ingsoc is real. Airstrip One is falling ever-further under the
Modern Policing II
Yesterday I wrote in The BFD about the impossibility of policing the multicultural chasm opened up by the Black Lives Matter movement. It was subsequently announced that the Minneapolis City Council intends to disband the Minneapolis Police Department altogether, and hand policing over to ‘community groups’. Nine of the 13
Letter from the North: 9 June
This has been a difficult comment to write, not because of writer’s block but because of the difficulty of deciding what to leave out. So much is happening in the UK that I will try and give a view on the undercurrents rather than what has been directly reported
Modern Policing
British Home Secretary Sir Robert Peel is regarded as the father of modern policing. His Metropolitan Police Act received royal assent in 1829, and the Metropolitan Police Service in London was formed in September of that year. The first modern and professional Police force in the world, its founding was
Lord Sumption Calls out BBC Reporter on UK Lockdown BBC News
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Britain’s Biggest Clown Honks Again
“An expert,” according to American philosopher Nicholas Butler, “is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing”. Was there ever an expert who knew so much about nothing as Professor Neil Ferguson? Ferguson achieved (renewed) notoriety when he first backtracked dramatically
Nothing but “Barney Castle” in Response to Investigation of Cummings
Durham Police have confirmed that Dominic Cummings’s visit to Barnard Castle was a breach and that the original journey to Durham was compliant. Interestingly, other police districts have said that they would have told him to turn round and go back home. What is clear is that the regulations
Nigel Farage Witnesses Illegal Migrants Entering British Waters
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Cummings on Thin Ice
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
Boris Johnson Makes Calculated Move to Support Cummings
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-