It is apparently acceptable for Brigitte Bardot to spend decades whipping up racial hatred and still be celebrated as a national icon, perhaps helped by glamour, distance, and nostalgia. But it is unacceptable for Gary Lineker to voice contemporary moral objections to cruelty and injustice.
As ever, responsibility for this alleged civic misery was pinned on a single figure – Sadiq Khan.
Stonewall’s corporate donations more than halved over the past year.
DUP first minister Peter Robinson has accused Northern Ireland secretary Theresa Villiers of “breaking her word”.
Public ownership of the railways was the second most popular policy among those presented to voters.
The Conservatives have failed to produce a sustainable critique of Labour’s spending plans.
Around 7 per cent of patients had to wait in A&E for more than four hours at the end of last year – the worst figures since records were first collected in 2004/05.
And pay inequality is worse this year than last.
Boris has the choice to freeze fares. He just won’t do it.
The Mayor’s policies are probably causing more greenhouse gas emissions than he is saving.
Labour’s deputy leader in Scotland has “no qualms whatsoever about working with the SNP”.
These measures will not stop the UK from being in danger of further terrorist activity and may well do the opposite.
Tory accusations of unfunded spending commitments are flatly contradicted by the IFS.
