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.
‘The threat to our society is not arriving by dinghy or small boats – the threat is flying by private jet’
‘Today’s figures are another damning indictment of the Conservatives’ failure to secure young workers’ prospects.’
‘We urge the Metropolitan police to avoid causing disruption and accept that the march should go ahead at the normal, planned time and from Pall Mall as announced.’
The comments were made at a fringe meeting at Green Party Conference
There is still more to be done…
Nearly 2.2m pensioners live in poverty.
Adrian Ramsay used his party conference speech to say he wanted to “raise up the voices of everyone across the country who wants a fairer, greener future”
Greens Organise wants to ‘build the left within the party, and the party within the left’
Over the last five years, the Street Foundation is found to have given rightwing pressure groups £749,000 – more than 40% of the money it handed out during this period
That works out to more than £2,500 an hour for Parliament’s highest earning MP.
