Women, men and children were dressed in magnificent, colorful garments: men wearing smart dhoti kurta, women and girls in bright saris; I apparently missed the memo and wore a simple blue jumpsuit from J. Crew. After the ambassador’s greetings to the guests, several artists took over the ...
On Thursday, MPs are due to leave Westminster for the summer recess. Yet,barring mishaps, a new Prime Minister is expected to be installed in Downing Street only the preceding day, making immediate parliamentary scrutiny of the new government’s key decisions all but impossible. An added pressur...
Some incidents were more obscure, but worth recalling for the record – such as Downing Street’s attempt to impose Chris Grayling as chair of the Intelligence and Security Committee (which rather dramatically backfired). Of course that post was written five months ago, and the list continues ...
Second, let’s suppose the behaviour of the juvenile delinquents in Downing Street and elsewhere in government had become generally known during lockdown. If you’d done a poll of the general population whether we should “do as they do or do as they say”, I wonder how that would have ...
Reddit Back when stegosaurus strolled around sipping lattes and hiding from raptors, the Series of Tubes was shiny and new, and featured completely juvenile wastes of time like Mullets Galore. This site featured the Mullet of the Week and a whole scientific taxonomy of mullets, which was both...
The Downing Street Agreement In the spring of 1993 Hume and Adams renewed their talks, this time in the public eye. In April they issued ajoint statementaffirming their desire for a “peaceful and democratic accord for all on this island”. Major and Reynolds also resumed their discussions. ...
The life and times of a Downing Street housewife Though Harold Macmillan was prime minister when Private Eye appeared in 1961, and Alec Douglas-Home soon succeeded him, the first to become the subject of a regular satirical column was Harold Wilson. ...
As I reveal in The Last Oil Shock, the CIA was also well aware of Iraq’s unique value, having secretly paid for new maps of its petroleum geology to be drawn as early as 1998. Cheney also knew, fretting publicly about global oil depletion at a speech in London the following year, wh...
Reddit Email Print & PDF Loading... The marginalisation of the House of Commons under Covid has been shocking; a year on, parliament’s role must urgently be restored Posted onApril 21, 2021byThe Constitution Unit A year ago today, the House of Commons returned from Easter transformed by...