From Wales Online:A former Tory MP has appeared in court charged with failing to provide information in relation to political party donations totalling £39,000. David Mackintosh appear… Read More

Lisa Kashinsky's must-read rundown of what's up on Beacon Hill and beyond. Aug 08, 2023 View in browser  … Read More

BBC News reports that David Mackintosh, the former Conservative MP for Northampton South, has appeared before a court charged with covering up donations to his general election campaign.He h… Read More

GMB calls 4 extra nationwide ambulance strikes, saying ‘demonisaton’ of workers by ministers has ‘made issues worse’ The GMB union has introduced 4 extra days of… Read More

Originally given as a paper to the Leicester Secular Society, 11 September 2022 George Jacob HOlyoake and Charles Bradlaugh when young.Introduction Bradlaugh and Holyoake were the two… Read More

Conservative MPs are declaring who they are backing to become the uk's subsequent best minister. at the moment 218 out of 357 Tory MPs have long past public with their help for probably… Read More

The Northampton Chronicle has the latest on this saga:A senior Conservative has confirmed she would not support David Mackintosh's bid to run again in June's General Election due to his hand… Read More

Last November I blogged about David Mackintosh, the Conservative MP for Northampton South.That post quoted a BBC News report:A Conservative MP's local party was given undeclared payments lin… Read More

By Marisa Laudadio 5:30am PDT, Jul 26, 2021… Read More

May this be the only time the State Opening of Parliament has to be so pared down. In December 2019, the last time this ceremony took place, everything was normal, with peers, MPs and distin… Read More

It’s often said that politics won’t make you rich. Fortunately, a few presidents have been able make a decent living from their political careers. Many more have failed to do thi… Read More

As a White Englishman, I have power and privilege simply due to the colour of my skin, and I won’t pretend to know what it must be like growing up in a world of institutional racism. I… Read More

The New York Times, created the famous slogan "All the News That's Fit to Print," which still appears on the masthead of the newspaper today.  And that may be the single source printed… Read More

On Tuesday evening the Guardian reported that the government is going to send in commissioners to run Northamptonshire Country Council.The Conservative-run authority issued a section 11… Read More

Back at the end of 2011, Roger Helmer was still a Conservative MEP. He was minded to retire from the European parliament, but wanted assurances that the first unelected candidate on the part… Read More

Tammy Green Baldwin was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives, representing the 2nd district of Wisconsin since 1999. She was "the first openly LGBT candidate eve… Read More

Well five years ago, I though that I would try and do a sort of guide which would show when the key seats were due to be announced and why they were key seats. If memory serves, it wasn&rsqu… Read More

One of the most invidious things about the discriminatory onslaught that men in the UK have to face is the introduction of all-women shortlists, quotas and special training sessions that fem… Read More