Who's in Jeremy Corbyn's Shadow Cabinet?
Who's in, and who's out of Jeremy Corbyn's first Shadow Cabinet? Jeremy Corbyn has won the Labour leadership race, and now must assemble his first Shadow Cabinet. IN Jeremy Corbyn, Leader of the...
View ArticleJeremy Corbyn begins his shadow cabinet reshuffle: who will serve?
Labour leader starts forming team by reappointing Rosie Winterton as opposition chief whip. The first major task facing Jeremy Corbyn after his landslide victory is to assemble a shadow cabinet....
View ArticleGhosts on the canvas: the life stories of paintings
Everything Is Happening by Michael Jacobs and The Rape of Europa by Charles FitzRoy. These two slim books tell the stories of two great pictures by two of art’s greatest painters: Diego Velázquez’s Las...
View ArticleSurvey: Technological advancement?
An online study. Technology continues to drive growth in all walks of life. The impact of major developments on big business right the way through to the everyday domestic user cannot be understated....
View ArticleA "nearly-history" of the Eighties, Britain's decade of boom, bust and Tory...
On Andy Beckett's Promised You a Miracle: UK 80-82, a long view of an often misunderstood decade. The former Labour foreign secretary David Owen’s four-storey Georgian house in Limehouse, east London,...
View ArticleWhere does Jeremy Corbyn stand on EU membership?
Labour leader accused of telling Chuka Umunna one thing and shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn another. There is no more momentous political decision ahead than whether the UK remains in the EU....
View ArticleJeremy Corbyn's woman trouble was an unforced error
The shadow cabinet reshuffle gave the impression that the new Labour leader sorted out top jobs for the boys first - and then worried about finding enough women to even things out. It didn't need to...
View ArticleWhy is Jeremy Corbyn proposing a tax cut for the rich?
Unpicking the new Labour leader's regressive tuition fees policy. A tax cut for the rich is one thing you won’t hear Jeremy Corbyn advocate anytime soon. Yet the new Labour leader is proposing one by...
View ArticleMalcolm Turnbull ousts Tony Abbott to become new Australian Prime Minister
The Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull beat Tony Abbott by 54 votes to 44 in a snap Liberal Party leadership ballot. The Liberal Party – and consequently, Australia – has a new leader after Tony...
View ArticleWill Jeremy Corbyn's final shadow cabinet help to repair the early damage?
The Labour leader has achieved a gender-balanced and politically diverse team. But McDonnell's appointment will remain hugely divisive. Before Jeremy Corbyn formed his shadow cabinet, he made two...
View ArticleWhat will Jeremy Corbyn's leadership mean for women?
The new Labour leader has failed to give any of his shadow cabinet's top jobs to women. Is this a sign of things to come? Whatever your political stance, one common reaction to Jeremy Corbyn's...
View ArticleWhat did Jeremy Corbyn’s new shadow chancellor really say about the IRA?
John McDonnell, known for his comments about the IRA, has been appointed shadow chancellor. But what did he actually say? John McDonnell, MP for Hayes & Harlington since 1997, has been appointed...
View ArticleThe Telegraph calls Jeremy Corbyn's shadow chancellor a "nutjob"
Unfriendly fire. The Daily Telegraph's website did not take kindly to Jeremy Corbyn's appointment of his friend John McDonnell as shadow chancellor, describing him as a "nutjob". Here's the headline:...
View ArticleWho were the winners and losers in Jeremy Corbyn's first reshuffle?
Who lost out in Jeremy Corbyn's first reshuffle? His own supporters - and women. For all the talk of change, this felt like a Blair-era reshuffle: lots of chaos, a late panic over some bad headlines,...
View ArticleA scientifically proven way of working out if someone's lying to you
The guessing game of being able to tell if someone is lying just became easier. All you have to do is grab a few friends to help. Ever find yourself wondering if someone is serving you a big tray of...
View ArticleCorbyn refuses to back EU membership at muted PLP meeting
Labour leader did not receive the traditional welcome for a newly-elected head. There was none of the desk-banging that one might expect a newly-elected Labour leader to be greeted with when Jeremy...
View ArticleThe new campus on the Rock – part 1
Gibraltar is on schedule to inaugurate its university in a week and students will begin their studies a week later. In the first of this two-part article, Education and Justice Minister Gilbert Licudi...
View ArticleJeremy Corbyn has won. Now what?
The Left's great victory requires a rethinking, and not just from Labour's centrists, says Michael Chessum. Paraphrasing Rosa Luxemburg, Hal Draper – the American Marxist thinker and leading figure...
View ArticleIn defence of CBeebies: a parent's plea to rescue the children's TV channel
Parents are uniting in their efforts to save the BBC children’s channel CBeebies from being axed. Brace yourselves, parents of young children. The BBC are considering axing CBeebies. Yes. I KNOW. And...
View ArticleMaking myths: Chigozie Obioma’s The Fishermen
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, this tale of Nigeria in the 1990s is a mighty fry-up of pop-culture, fable and verbal invention. In the Nigerian town of Akure, four brothers go fishing in the...
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