Profit from Division
Leverage is emerging in the fractures of polarised political culture. One venture capitalist prospecting in nationalist movements financed far-right agitators who successfully campaigned in UK and US elections, gaining access and influence to barter for favourable tax conditions for the…
Her Finest Hour
Looking back on the career of outgoing Prime Minister Theresa May her finest hour is a shining example of her time in office. May’s appearance on Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs gives a hint of the person behind the person,…
Green Yellows Or Yellow Greens?
On 1st July Paul Hunt and Nick Perry, of the local Liberal Democrat Party, extended an invitation to the local Green Party offering an electoral pact in next year’s local council elections. The invitation cited the Lib Dems’ willingness to…
The Hour Glass Runs On
Merlin Betts and Alan Bolwell explore the impact of Extinction Rebellion Reclaim public spaces, rewild your gardens, rebel against bureaucratic mismanagement. The climate rebels encompass all sorts, not just radical ecologists. Sedate middle-class patrons also break out the banners and…
Intervention Programme Helps Children At Risk
The first Early Intervention Youth Programme of its kind in the UK has now been fully mobilised across Sussex and has begun to steer more than 60 young people away from crime in just the first six weeks. The most…
Hygiene Poverty Relief
Hygiene poverty has been identified as ‘a hidden crisis’ in Britain and one that is growing, according to a 2017 report by In Kind Direct. With little money to cover the cost of everyday essentials, some families are being forced…
The Diamond In The Trough
Rotherview Nursery are celebrating having been awarded a Gold medal at this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show, ( 21 – 25 May). The award was given for their Floral Pavilion display of handmade hyper-tufa troughs planted with alpines and ;…
Confidence and Supply
Boris Johnson’s leadership campaign team have been holding talks with leaders of the DUP, whose confidence and supply arrangement is holding the government together. Having survived a vote of no confidence in her leadership of the Conservative Party in December,…
Jane The Virgin
Netflix (5 seasons)Reviewed by Alan Bolwell The television serial format, telenovela, is the Latino equivalent of soap-opera; with more passion, more drama, doppelgangers, long-lost twin siblings, lovers, rivals, mortal enemies, shootings, comas, amnesia, mysteries… and of course, cliff-hangers. All of…
Indicative?
Perhaps ‘indicative’ was too strong a word to describe a series of votes taken by MPs to find an alternative Brexit strategy. After twice rejecting the government’s plan, MPs have failed to determine any alternative put to the house by…