David Snoxell is Co-Ordinator of the Chagos Islands (BIOT) APPG. The Chagos Archipelago of 54 islands, formerly administered as a dependency of the British Colony of Mauritius, was excised by Britain in 1965, three years before Mauritius was granted independence. It...




Prime Minister facing calls to BAN EU supertrawlers from UK waters
Advertisements Prime Minister Boris Johnson is facing calls to follow through on his pledge to ban EU supertrawlers which regularly plunder UK waters. These calls are coming in a petition which has already attracted more than 42,000 signatures. Foreign...
Henry Hill: Johnson suggests 40-year wait for the next Scottish independence vote
Johnson calls for decades-long wait for second independence vote Last month, I wrote that there was unease in parts of the Government about an alleged “appease-the-SNP mentality” on the part of some of those charged with setting its strategy for combatting...


Three teenagers accused of murdering 13 year old boy appear in court
Advertisements Three teenagers accused of murdering a 13-year-old boy who was stabbed to death have appeared in court. Oliver Stephens, known as Olly, was pronounced dead at Bugs Bottom fields, Emmer Green in Reading, on Sunday.Advertisements Two boys, aged 13 and 14,...




Morrisons chief wants to stock even more British goods
Advertisements The chief executive of the supermarket Morrisons, the fourth largest chain of supermarkets in the United Kingdom has declared that he intends to stock even more British goods after the chain announced strong seasonal trading. “Two thirds of what we sell...




Prime Minister defends new national lockdown measures
Advertisements Whilst speaking in the House of Commons today Boris Johnson has today attempted to win over his rebel MPs as he defended his new national coronavirus lockdown. He insisted he had ‘no choice’ but plunge Britain back into a spring 2019...


Newslinks for Thursday 7th January 2021
America 1) Woman dies as Trump mob storms Senate “Thousands of President Trump’s supporters stormed the US Capitol to bring a violent halt to the formal confirmation of his election defeat yesterday after he urged them to “take back the country”. The mob overran...


Auto-rant, bullshit and self-pity. The conspiracists who stormed the senate. And their right-wing equivalents here.
The centre-right mainstream will be frantically galloping this morning to put as much distance as possible between itself and Donald Trump. Conservative MPs, publications and activists will condemn the President, suggest that they’ve never had any time for him,...
Daniel Hamilton: The Republicans must now decisively reject Trump
Daniel Hamilton works in international business consultancy and was a Conservative candidate at the 2017 General Election. In decades to come, Donald Trump’s presidency will be remembered by two speeches that book-ended his term in office, both delivered from the...