It’s one week until polling day in the UK… Here’s a fairly cynical look at voting, in case you needed it! Just Pick Your Favourite Colour Polling approaches. A week to the day.Will you vote blonde, or will you vote grey?Perhaps you’ll vote orange with plastic earrings,Or pull your pint purple, if Brexit’s your thing.For …
Well, it’s probably not a huge surprise that Prince Andrew has been forced into standing down from Royal Duties in the aftermath of his disaster interview last weekend. Such huge news is it that every mainstream British newspaper dedicated their frontpage to the story. There’s an election on? You wouldn’t know! And for that we …
Archivists at the University of Washington have unearthed a 120-year-old photo of a girl who looks uncannily like Greta Thunberg, the teenage climate activist. The photo has inspired conspiracy theorists who claim the 1898 photo – taken in a Canadian gold-mine – shows that Greta Thunberg is a timetraveller, sent to deliver us an important …
With the 2019 UK General Election campaigns starting to build steam, the Labour team have all disappeared into the boardroom to finalise the content of their manifesto. The party has been pretty tight-lipped on what might be in their 2019 promise-to-the-nation, but Jeremy Corbyn has allowed one little sneak peak. If Labour wins the election …
When Boris Johnson finally arrives in the flood-stricken region of North Yorkshire it seems the locals don’t particularly want to see him anyway. We must ignore the “you took your time” catcalls and silence this unnecessary clammer for political leaders to visit disaster zones for a photoshoot. With parliament prorogued for the election Jo Swinson …
On 31 October 2019, Speaker of the House of Commons John Bercow stood down from his decade in the Speaker’s Chair. John Bercow has been a controversial Speaker who has divided opinion. He has modernised some elements of the House of Commons proceedings – including choosing not to wear the Speaker’s wig. But it is …
I wrote this poem when President Trump called in to Nigel Farage’s talk show on LBC Radio to give his two pennies’ on the General Election and the future of Brexit. The President told Farage that he likes Boris Johnson, Jeremy Corbyn would be bad for the UK, and if Farage and Boris worked together …
