In the latest Weekly Sceptic podcast, the talking points are the self-destruction of the Conservative Party, Graham Norton's woke confusion and Jeremy Hunt’s remarkable comeback.
In this week’s London Calling the talking points are: getting old, cycling accidents, the season finale of Rings of Power, Anthony Trollope’s masterpiece and whether Jeremy Hunt’s coronation is a deep state coup.
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Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the world. 1. UK’s political musical chairs This week saw the UK’s Conservative Party playing yet another party game – and when the music stopped it was …
New Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has a woeful record on lockdowns: a Zero Covid proponent, he has praised China's response, voted for vaccine passports and opposed ending lockdowns until infections drop below 1,000 a day.
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Boris Johnson is the favourite to win the Conservative leadership contest. But has he got what it takes to strike a Brexit deal with the EU?, asks Johanna Ross. By Johanna Ross in Edinburgh, Scotland Special to Consortium News The…Read more →
Charlotte Gracias
21st Century Wire
Why are the general public not outraged by the psychological torture and deterioration in Julian’s Assange’s health? The answer is as simple as it is abominable: because the corporate and state media oracles have conducted an eight-year campaign of vilifying Julian Assange.
IMAGE: Jeremy Hunt and Amal Clooney campaigning for ‘Media Freedom’ this week.
Nina Cross
21st Century Wire
The British government’s agenda towards Venezuela is blatantly interventionist, with the Foreign Office now flagrantly breaking international law in support of US geopolitics in Latin America, and it is backed by politicians from across the spectrum. Regardless of party allegiance, politicians serving the British establishment are intoxicated by the prospect of reining in a people who have said ‘no’ to […]
By Grete Mautner – New Eastern Outlook – 11.10.2018 Blatant lies have been a feature of the British political system for a long while. Whitehall’s tried and tested ways of manipulating the general public are used to distract attention from crucial topics. But what’s even more curious is that inside the Whitehall bunkers where they […]
British Foreign Minister Jeremy Hunt began his visit to China on a blunder about his wife’s ethnicity, in a bid to establish a personal tie to China, he blurted out to Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi that his wife is Japanese, although she’s actually Chinese. Hunt’s visit to China is orchestrated to strengthen trade ties between Britain and China so as to develop a post-Brexit trade plan.
Sky news reports
