Lies
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The Best Defence is a Good Offence
As if they anticipated the court’s decision, the Mail on Sunday published an attack on the Good Law Project’s founder, Jolyon Maugham QC, last weekend. The article includes irrelevant references to Mr Maugham’s killing of a fox in his garden and implies that donations which finance the Good Law Project may not be used as…
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Reckless Procurement Revealed in Explosive Court Case
On Tuesday, the same day that the National Audit Office finds that the Government lacked detailed contingency plans for a pandemic, the High Court started hearing a case against Matt Hancock. It is the Good Law Project and EveryDoctor that have challenged the Health Secretary over the Government’s unlawful procurement of PPE contracts. The previous…
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UN-Acceptable Racism Report
The Johnson Government has not only been taken to court by the EU for breaking international law, the UN now accuses No 10 of normalising white supremacy. After the Black Lifes Matter protests last year Samuel Kasumu, special adviser for civil society and communities, initiated a report on racism in the UK. The report was…
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From Russia with… love?
Russia still poses an active threat to the UK, according to the Government’s Integrated Review, published in March. Vladimir Putin stated in 2019 that a government’s duty is to create a stable life for its citizens. He went on to say that liberal democracies have failed in providing this stability for people. This was the…
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Government Breaks NHS Promise
Time and time again during the election campaign of 2019 the Conservative Party assured us that the NHS is not for sale. In March 2020, when the UK started trade negotiations with the US, Prime Minister Johnson declared that the NHS was not on the table. Yet less than a year later American owned Operose…
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Join or Slip Away
The 1990’s offered hopeful days when the peace process started in Northern Ireland. It took years to finalise what has become known as the Good Friday Agreement in 1998. The EU has created the longest period of peace between the member states since Roman times because it offers countries an opportunity to discuss and work…
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Money not Sex
At the weekend it was confirmed – what many had long suspected – that there had been an affair between the Prime Minister and Jennifer Arcuri. As sordid and sad as the story may be, with a deceived wife, let-down children and abandoned lovers along the way, their bedroom stories should be their own business…
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For Everybody to See
“The contracts are there on record for everybody to see,” said the Prime Minister. Except for the 100 he’d forgotten about. 19 February 2021The High Court rules that the Health Secretary acted unlawfully by not publishing contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds. 22 February 2021The Prime Minister assured us that all was there to…
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Whitehall of Mirrors
Whitehall in 2021 is like a hall of mirrors, a maze of illusions and broken promises. Revelations, which a few years ago would have caused resignation, are simply shrugged off and brushed into oblivion. Last November the Prime Minister announced he backed the Home Secretary Priti Patel after it had been confirmed she broke the…
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Questionable Answers
At Prime Minister’s Questions yesterday Sir Keir Starmer asked Boris Johnson: “If he so determined to cut NHS pay, will he at least show some courage and put it to a vote in this Parliament?” Mr Johnson replied: “The last time that we put this to a vote, the right hon. and learned Gentleman voted…