Here’s @AndrewGimson on the court of King Boris on @Channel4News – with added bonus of beard & amusing cat cameo. https://t.co/K1S1mMnJlF — Cathy Newman (@cathynewman) February 20, 2021
Nigel Farage calls for BBC licence fee to be scrapped and lambasts ‘unfit for purpose’ House of Lords
Advertisements The leader of the Reform UK party, Nigel Farage has revealed some key aspects of his party will be campaigning on for the upcoming UK elections. The plans revealed so far include scrapping the BBC licence fee and taking aim at reforming the civil...
Doctors ‘mistakenly diagnosed 22-year-old cancer sufferer with tonsillitis’
Advertisements A 22-year-old man was mistakenly diagnosed with tonsillitis for two months before doctors realised it was leukaemia. Ben Peters aged 22, was told of the horrific time he went through after his tonsils swelled to the size of golf balls leaving him...
Tom Spencer: A one-off wealth tax is not the way forward – but a proportional property tax might do the job
Tom Spencer is a Young Voices UK contributor. He is also the lead organiser for the London Neoliberals and sits on its Steering Committee as Vice-Chair of International Chapters. Mel Stride, Tory MP and chair of the Treasury select committee, has just proposed a...
Covid Vaccine passports could ‘discriminate’ according to Royal Society experts
Advertisements Covid-19 vaccine passports have the potential to discriminate against the young, pregnant or those who can’t have the jab for medical reasons. This must be factored into any such scheme before launching, according to a Royal Society...
Two arrested after the ‘unexplained’ death of a 9-year-old boy
Advertisements Two people have been arrested after the death of a nine-year-old child who was found in a critical condition at a property in Worcestershire. West Mercia Police said the boy died in hospital after the callout to an address on Vashon Drive in Copcut,...
Newslinks for Saturday 20th February 2021
Downing Street in disarray as second Union adviser quits in two weeks “Downing Street’s policy on the Union has been thrown into disarray after a second Number 10 adviser on the issue quit in as many weeks. Oliver Lewis, a former Vote Leave staffer and Dominic...
Johnson’s Downing Street. Like an unstable Middle Eastern autocracy – with jihadis, family militias, and outside actors exchanging fire.
Downing Street, like some unstable Middle Eastern autocracy, is in danger of disintegrating into warring factions Few outside the Westminster Village know who Oliver Lewis is, and fewer care about his resignation as a special adviser to Boris Johnson. Some believe...
Sarah Ingham: Corbyn and his gang could scarcely have handled coronavirus worse than the Government
Dr Sarah Ingham is a member of Kensington, Chelsea and Fulham Conservative Association. Might it have been better if Jeremy Corbyn and his band of merry Trots won the December 2019 General Election? Had Corbyn and the comrades somehow got their hands on the levers of...
Ben Howlett: Hancock must seize this opportunity for health and social care reform
Before becoming MD of Public Policy Projects, Ben was Member of Parliament for Bath from 2015 to 2017 and Chair of the first Parliamentary Group for Rare, Genetic and Undiagnosed Conditions. He also Chaired the Stroke Group and supported the personalised medicines and...
