Right to Peaceful Protest – Lawyers Tell Human Rights Committee The Government Has Breached Our Human & Common Law Rights
Advertisements On 24th February 2021, A virtual 2-hour Parliamentary Human Rights Committee meeting was held. Subject: The Government’s response to covid-19: human rights implications of long lockdown Witness(es): Lochlinn Parker, Head of Civil Liberties, ITN...
Penny Mordaunt Contradicts Government Policy on Transgenderism from the Despatch Box
Penny Mordaunt Contradicts Government Policy on Transgenderism from the Despatch Box [embedded content] Yesterday Penny Mordaunt once again strayed from the government’s official line, speaking at the despatch box in support of amending a bill on ministerial maternity...
West Midlands Police launch murder investigation after a man was stabbed in Birmingham
Advertisements West Midlands Police detectives have launched a murder investigation after a man was fatally stabbed in Birmingham earlier this morning (Tuesday 2 March). Police were called to reports of a stabbing in Perry Villa Drive at around 3.50am. A man was found...
Swinney Admits Salmond Legal Advice Raised Case “Reservations”
This morning, Deputy First Minister of Scotland John Swinney wrote to the Salmond Inquiry committee of MSPs, formally committing to publishing the legal advice this afternoon. This is following Labour, the Lib Dems, Reform UK, and the Greens all backing the Scottish...
James Frayne: Raise tax, and expect your competence and values to be questioned
James Frayne is Director of Public First and author of Meet the People, a guide to moving public opinion. I wrote about tax a few weeks ago here. Given it now seems overwhelmingly likely we’ll be facing significant tax rises tomorrow, I thought it was worth returning...
Macron’s Lockdown Extension Even After Reluctant AstraZeneca U-Turn
Macron’s Lockdown Extension Even After Reluctant AstraZeneca U-Turn France is set to continue its lockdown for at least four to six weeks as Macron finally puts his ego to one side and allows over 65s to receive the Oxford vaccine. Yesterday Health Minister Oliver...
National Scandal: Scientists at top British universities worked with Chinese nuclear weapons researchers.
Advertisements In major news that has been described as a ‘national scandal’ scientists at some of Britain’s leading universities including Cambridge, Edinburgh and Manchester have worked on a number of projects with researchers at China’s nuclear weapons research...
Shanker Singham: Breaking the Gordian knot of agricultural trade negotiations. How the TAC has risen to the challenge.
Shanker Singham is CEO of Competere. He is a former adviser to Liam Fox when he was Secretary of State for International Trade, and to the Office of the United States Trade Representative. Agricultural trade is one of the most difficult areas to negotiate, and has...
Ant Middleton SACKED from Channel 4 over BLM & Covid opinions
Advertisements Channel 4 has said it will not work with Ant Middleton again due to his “personal conduct”. Last year, the SAS: Who Dares Wins star faced criticism over comments about the Black Lives Matter protests and coronavirus.Advertisements In a statement, the...
Red Wall Favours Spending Cuts Over Tax Hikes
Red Wall Favours Spending Cuts Over Tax Hikes Research from Public First’s Rachel Wolf has revealed that when asked to choose between higher taxes, borrowing, or spending cuts, a plurality of the public back spending cuts over the other options. Tax rises are most...
