The speech spanned about an hour. QBP Katz first talked about Queens as a tourist destination, and then looked back at the year of 2015, while touching upon some of the ongoing issues facing the borough like lack of affordable housing, aging transportation infrastructure including Queens airports...
There’s no better example than the BoD’s demand that the then Labour leadership contenders must sign up to its 10 pledges, which include (I paraphrase): that Labour should only relate to the ‘Jewish community’ though its ‘main representatives’ (meaning principally themselves), that these ...
This may not seem like that big of a deal, but it is. The change allows the government to conduct surveillance for purposes other than gathering foreign intelligence, so long as the gathering of foreign intelligence is thrown in there. For example, the government could now say, “we’d lik...
This inflation lasted throughout the 1970s. President Ford, who completed the last year and a half of the Nixon presidency, made attempts to deal with inflation. His means of dealing with it was to have people wearWIN buttons. WIN stood for “Whip Inflation Now.” Some people might say ...
Today, some words are considered inherently offensive, regardless of whether or not they were offensive at the time they were put into print. Words used to describe minorities that were accepted by all (including those minorities) in the past are no longer accepted in current speech or print....
In an emotional speech during a Commons debate on universal credit this week, Mr Mercer clashed angrily and repeatedly with Labour and SNP MPs, saying: "Nobody believes that universal credit is perfect. "Have we more to do? Of course we have. Am I happy? Do I think this is an are...
This is helpful, as the First Minister’s speech (here at c21:40mins onwards, or text here) was less clear on timing, with the FM stating “as a first step, we will spend £16m next year to increase college bursaries and university grants …“. The next academic year starts in ...
Starmer has just removed the whip from seven Labour MPs (for 6 months) because they voted to lift the 2-child benefit cap[4]. This shows that Labour MPs are still involved in the struggle; one must supp...
In a speech at Lancaster House, May outlined a ‘hard Brexit’ stance, which toughened up the referendum vote decision into a commitment to re-control all immigration and exit fairly completely from all EU institutions and arrangements.This regime collapsed within a year, after...
Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) also may run for leader but has not yet announced; he could also run for the No. 2 job of whip. All of the so-called “Three Johns” have endorsed Trump. But Daines endorsed in April last year — significantly ahead of any of his John-named competition...