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Top Tories were star guests at ‘misleading’ DUP fundraisers
With eight Irish unionist MPs holding the government over a barrel, at least two top Tories have attended party fundraisers for the DUP – with the Electoral Commission investigating suggestions that public money may have been laundered into party coffers.
Neil Hamilton: Enoch Powell was a good racist, not a bad racist
UKIP in Wales leader Neil Hamilton has been embarrassing himself more than usual, defending Enoch Powell’s so-called rivers of blood speech as “proved right by events”.
Local council to save Bell End
Labour-run Sandwell Council has rebuffed residents of Bell End who demanded the local authority use its powers to change the ‘rude’ name of their street.
David Cameron speech to oligarch in probe over $150,000 Trump donation
With an FBI raid on Donald Trump’s lawyer heating up the Justice Department Russia probe, news also breaks that US investigators are looking into a $150,000 donation from a Ukrainian oligarch.
Reasons to be cheerful: Britain First may be following BNP down the toilet
While there has been much (justified) rejoicing at the British National Party losing its final district councillor, the far-right group formerly led by Nick Griffin had been overtaken by other far-right groups long ago.
Secret cuts: how government kept children’s centre closures out of official stats
A report by Oxford University academics has revealed that closures of Sure Start children’s centres are actually DOUBLE the number recorded in ‘official’ government statistics – meaning up to 1,000 could have closed in the last eight years.
Stop this indoctrination of school children (except by right wingers)
Unite staffer Shelly Asquith writes for LabourList today on the union’s programme in schools, which sees reps – under the supervision of teachers – attending Citizenship Education classes to discuss activism and the labour movement with students.
George Osborne meets “dead woman walking” Theresa May
Readers from the capital will doubtless be familiar with ‘newspaper editor’ George Osborne and the use of the London Evening Standard as his personal political cudgel.
Report: Chris Grayling lied to parliament over railway cuts
A new report from the government’s official auditors has left transport secretary Chris Grayling exposed over fibs to parliament.