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Hero of the Hour – Chuka Umunna

Chuka Umunna MP speaks sense on Britain’s membership of the Single Market   This morning, Chuka Umunna spoke for many when he was interviewed on Radio 4’s Today programme.   The Labour MP commented:   We’re saying from the point...

Quote of the Week – Beasts & Crooks

Dennis Skinner on the now rejected Tory election fraud allegations   Yesterday, the Electoral Commission astonishingly rejected all but one of the allegations of electoral fraud against Conservative Party candidates and officials in relation to activities...

Moving Jobs

Your Move estate agency employee sues firm for constructive dismissal and sexual harassment after boss allegedly offered him a blowjob if he hit targets   An estate agency firm took rewards for good performance to another...

Trumping a Visa

Kushner family exposed for promoting their links to the Trump presidency to flog flats (with visas) to Chinese investors   Yesterday, The Washington Post, in revealing that the Kushner family are hawking properties complete with investor...

Backing Borwick

K&C resident Justin Downes shares his reasons for supporting Victoria Borwick, the Conservative Party Parliamentary Candidate for Kensington   It is sad that politics has become – if it ever wasn’t – such a filthy business....

Dastardly Diane

Diane Abbott MP, a woman unable to grasp numbers, revealed to be perfectly capable of grabbing as much as she can for her very own pocket   Quite capable of whining about supposedly being unfairly targeted...

Picture of the Week – Chippy May

Images of Theresa May eating chips prove to be her ‘Ed Milliband moment’   Theresa May likes to refer to her “red, white and blue Brexit” and “Corbyn’s coalition of chaos”, but yesterday, the hectoring vicar’s...

Turncoat Tory Predicts Troubles for Theresa

Scandal prone Tory activist turned Jared Kushner employed journalist Andre Walker claims Theresa May is fearful of electoral disaster due to MPs from her party likely being jailed   A widely criticised one-time Tory activist turned...

Breaking with Boris

Breaking News – Rachel Johnson explains why she ditched the party of her Foreign Secretary brother Boris and defected to the Lib Dems   On this morning’s Andrew Marr Show on BBC1, Rachel Johnson was interviewed...

Video of the Week – Mocking May

Comedian Jan Ravens’ impersonation of Theresa May is utterly brilliant   With the election campaign under way, a little humour is definitely required and a comical video shared on YouTube provides just such.   Featuring the actress Jan...

Wally of the Week – Sir Michael Caine

Actor Michael Caine claims to be “a socialist” in spite of having been involved in a tax avoidance scheme and previously leaving Britain to avoid the top rate of tax in the 1970s   Sir Michael...

Backing Best for Britain

Gina Miller achieves 1,000% of target in less than 24 hours in crowdfunding drive to fund tactical voting initiative against hard Brexit   On Wednesday, businesswoman and philanthropist Gina Miller launched a GoFundMe campaign to raise...

Banished by Brexit

HSBC to relocate 1,000 key jobs from London to Paris because of Brexit   Theresa May, a woman more interested in getting het up about Easter eggs than the fate of the British economy, should take...

Bernie Madoff – The Wizard of Lies

TV drama film examining largest financial fraud ever by an individual set to air in May in America; ‘The Wizard of Lies’ examines the crimes of Bernard L. Madoff   On 20th May, Americans will finally...

K&C Doesn’t Care

As 50% of care homes in Kensington & Chelsea are rated “inadequate”, we suggest this reflects what the area has become: A money park for the selfish rich   A society that does not care for...

Trumping Livingstone

Has Ken Livingstone become Britain’s answer to Donald Trump?   Father of five Ken Livingstone would no doubt hate the comparison but, putting him in perspective, he’s rather like a British version of the American father...

Mugged by Mrs May

Updated: Theresa May forges a new career in post-Brexit Britain: Flogging tea towels and mugs   Theresa May, a woman who should be busy sorting out the mess that is her “red, white and blue Brexit”,...

A Conservative Cover-up

After ‘The Telegraph’ revealed that details of payments to those connected to MPs were briefly leaked on Thursday, we join calls for the way politicians and their leech-like families are renumerated to be changed   In...

The Baloney of Brexit

Summing up Britain beginning its road to Brexit and an amusing take on the Prime Minister’s letter to Donald Tusk   Yesterday, Theresa May found her date with destiny and triggered Article 50. With no more...

Picture of the Week – Protesting British Style

Amusing signs from the Unite for Europe march   When Brits protest, they do it with heart and at Saturday’s Unite for Europe march, thousands did so with aplomb.   Our Picture of the Week comes from the...

Kippered Out

UKIP’s demise is nigh; it will be only remembered for its factionalism and Alf Garnett-esque membership   UKIP was formed by Dr Alan Sked, a wacky professor turned fan of Enoch Powell, in 1993. It morphed...

Limehouse

Matthew Steeples extols the relevance of the Donmar Warehouse’s ‘Limehouse’ to Britain’s contemporary political climate   At a time when Brexit has divided Britain and Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour continues to provide little-to-no opposition to Theresa May’s...

An Expensive Blank Canvas

Repossessed Knightsbridge flat for sale for £5.25 million in spite of being a complete wreck   Originally built in 1870 with a façade created from the Portland stone from the original Blackfriars Bridge, 33 Ennismore Gardens...

The Big Bend

Billionaire living in New York might take a U-turn if a proposed skyscraper named the ‘Big Bend’ becomes reality   A 4,000 foot end-to-end conceptual skyscraper has been proposed in Manhattan in order to “potentially provide...

Not So Roomy

Small, single room in South Kensington to be sold for £150,000 at auction   A single room in South Kensington is to be auctioned for the staggering sum of £150,000 ($184,000, €172,000 or درهم675,000).   Curiously offered with...

Bring Back Abdulhak

Father of Martine Vik Magnussen again calls for his daughter’s wealthy Arabic suspected killer to face justice nine years after her death   Nine years have passed since Martine Vik Magnussen, after being caught on camera...

Singleminded Sturgeon

As Nicola Sturgeon lobs a grenade at Theresa May’s “red, white and blue Brexit”, Jeremy Corbyn is met with equal derision   Yesterday, Nicola Sturgeon pulled a blinder and threw a spanner in Theresa May’s plan...

Burying Abuse in the Budget

As it is revealed the IPCC has dropped its investigation into the Met Police’s handling of the investigation into historic child abuse and “buried” the news to coincide with Philip Hammond’s budget, it is...

Big Beast Banished After Brexit Balls-up

Theresa May has made an error in sacking ‘big beast’ Lord Heseltine as a government advisor; that she never bothered to meet him speaks volumes as to her management of her government   Yesterday, in spite...

Picture of the Week – Spying on Trump

As an image of Barrack Obama spying on Donald Trump in Trump Tower goes viral, we call on America to section the lunatic president On Sunday, Florida based Michael Hussey, editor of the Pushing Rope...

Shifty Coughs Up

‘Sir Shifty’ Philip Green’s payment of £363 million is not enough; this brash bully should also be stripped of his title   As Steven Berkoff set out here previously, Sir Philip Green – AKA ‘Sir Shifty’...

Angry White House Staffer

Twitter account that purports to belong to a White House staffer shares information that will both shock and amuse   Created on 27th January 2017, a Twitter account with the handle @angrywhstaffer is a must follow....