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.
Under our winner-takes-all system, in tight seats, voters could well hold their noses and cast their ballot for a candidate with the best chance of winning, just to deliver a knock-out blow for the Tories.
“You weren’t expecting to go swimming this bank holiday weekend, anyway, were you?”
Kim McGuinness is the new Labour mayor of the North East representing around two million people in the region
Tory Ben Houchen won a tight race to be Tees Valley mayor
“The absolute state of this lot”
A nation’s wealth and greatness is not measured by the number of billionaires but by how well it takes care of its children and weakest members
The Greens toast impressive gains, as progressives celebrate the Tories downfall and lead the call for a general election
On course for ‘one of the worst, if not the worst Conservative performance in local government elections for the last 40 years’
‘Choosing May Day to give notice of watering down your promise to overhaul one of the worst sets of employment rights in Europe is beyond irony’
According to the OECD, gross domestic product will increase by 0.4 per cent in 2024, a lower expansion than in any other G7 economy apart from Germany, before growing by 1 per cent in 2025.
