Tommy Sheppard: UK and the West must stop ignoring plight of the Kurds
THINKING about your holidays? Turkey seems nice.
THINKING about your holidays? Turkey seems nice.
THE clocks have changed. It’ll be brighter tonight. The year moves inexorably forward towards the coming General Election.
MICHAEL Gove gave a masterclass in silver-tongued sophistry in the House of Commons on Thursday. Usurping the role of Home Secretary, he launched the Tory government’s new “initiative” on “extremism”. Like a political matador, Gove parried concern and criticism from left and right. Unfazed, he praised his opponents for any criticism they threw his way. Nothing to see here. All very sensible. After all, we all hate Nazis.
WEDNESDAY’S Budget is the Tories’ last chance to pull some financial rabbits out of the UK Treasury hat and bolt for the ballot box in a spring election. Something big. Something that will incentivise a disgruntled and disillusioned electorate. Something that will appeal to the Tory base.
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LAST week, we witnessed another act in the ongoing pantomime of elected members of parliament trying to hold the UK Government to account for its policy on the
WELL now, my last column seems to have touched a nerve for many. Usually, I don’t get a lot of reaction to my musings on the topics de jour, but my suggestion last time that people who support
IT’S 2024. Election year. And it really is all to play for.
BIG changes ahead. 2024 will be an election year in both the UK and US. But for my last column of the year, I want to focus on something that
WITH the UK media obsessed with Boris Johnson’s appearance at the Covid enquiry and Tory infighting over immigration, the war on Gaza has slid down the headlines.
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