Dull Burnham and Cooper face backlash in Newsnight Labour Debate
If anyone was in any doubt where the four Labour leadership candidates landed on the political spectrum before BBC Newsnight’s Labour Debate, their ignorance wi...
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Chris Evans ‘categorically’ replaces Jeremy Clarkson on Top Gear
In the midst of the controversy surrounding Jeremy Clarkson’s “fracas” with the producer Oisin Tymon a number of candidates were mooted for replacing the ...
Mary Creagh quits Labour leadership bid, cussing ‘anti-business’ mindset
The weeks since Ed Miliband’s thrashing at the polls have seen a whittling down of potential leaders from six (mostly) Blairite hopefuls to a mere four – ...
Tory minister for constitutional obstruction gives two fingers to demand for election reform
Who woulda thunk that a government could wilfully ignore a petition actually – well, mostly virtually — signed by half a million people? Probably most of us, to...
How GCHQ, MI5 and MI6 are dodging democratic scrutiny over ‘bulk personal datasets’
The British have been infringing on freedom a lot longer than their cousins across the Atlantic – so perhaps it is not surprising that we do it better. Even as ...