Open season Wimbledon expansion, Issue 1626 WITH Wimbledon looming, the All England Lawn Tennis Club is in full lobbying mode for its plan to build an 8,000-seat stadium, 38 courts, 10 buildings and nine kilometres of roads and paths in its neighbouring park in south-west London, to host its qualifying …
Read More »Johnson under renewed threat as prime minister after devastating by-election defeats
Boris Johnson’s crisis-ridden premiership became more so Friday after the ruling Conservatives suffered two worse than expected by-election defeats. The elections were the first held since the “partygate” scandal that has rocked Johnson’s leadership since last November. UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaving London to attend Chogm 2022 in Rwanda. …
Read More »Britain’s rail strike and the struggle against war: Bring down the Johnson government!
Rail workers in the UK will walk out again Thursday for the second of three days of national strike action. This is no ordinary industrial dispute. Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his government of political gangsters want to emulate Margaret Thatcher’s targeting of the miners in 1984-85, which ended in …
Read More »Nick Ferrari issues warning to PM on ‘the growing sense of industrial unrest’
23 June 2022, 17:34 Nick Ferrari has issued a warning to Boris Johnson on “the growing sense of industrial unrest”. Watch this week’s episode of The Agenda in full here. The LBC presenter’s words have come as the country faces rail strikes. Nick said: “This week it’s the rail union. …
Read More »UK government forced to enact new restrictions after pandemic let loose
UK government forced to enact new restrictions after pandemic let loose By Thomas Scripps 1 August 2020 The Conservative government’s claims to have brought the pandemic under control—its main justification for ending the national lockdown over the last weeks—are in a state of utter collapse. Amid a national surge …
Read More »Sunday newspaper round-up: Boris Johnson, Brexit, Thomas Cook, Wrightbus, Sainsbury’s, Hinkley Point C
Boris Johnson has personally apologised for embarrassing the Queen by requiring her to approve the unlawful suspension of the House of Commons. Royal sources have revealed that there was huge disquiet in the Queen’s household about Johnson’s decision to prorogue parliament for five weeks, even before the Supreme Court ruled …
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