by The Editor | Jun 17, 2017 | Politics
It’s a fact that wealth disparity in the borough of Kensington is amongst the most acute in Britain. For those trapped in poverty there it was considered to be among the top 10% of most deprived areas in the country. However something stood out to me as we watched the...
by The Editor | Jun 17, 2017 | Politics
I was watching a bit of the proceedings from Westminster today and it just hit home how much our so called democracy is broken. MPs were having to swear their oath to the Queen: I (name of Member) swear by Almighty God that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance...
by The Editor | Jun 17, 2017 | Politics
12 days ago I wrote that enough is enough and that the way the Conservative party treated our emergency services was hypocritical. I was angry then, I don’t think there’s a word to describe how I feel now. Some people have said that events such as the fire at Grenfell...
by The Editor | Jun 17, 2017 | Politics
When a building collapses somewhere like Bangladesh, we have no hesitation in looking for lax regulation and corrupt practices. Now the searchlight is being shone on the UK, and we didn’t have to look far to find a shelved parliamentary report and gagged and...
by The Editor | Jun 14, 2017 | Health & Education
It’s been a long time since jobs were advertised in jobcentres and you went there to look for work, but a jobcentre actively intervening to stop people’s own efforts to find a job places it firmly in the category of worse than useless. It’s not just that they’re...