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//A senior doctor refused to see a woman who died of an asthma attack after 39 hours sitting in a chair in A&E, an inquest heard. Marina Young died at the Royal Preston Hospital on 22 June 2022... ...
Boris says the scandal from partygate was the downfall of him and the Cons. His apology was the beginning of the end of his days as PM. Now Defiant Johnson, rather than feeling a sense of remorse... ...
https://news.sky.com/story/israel-hezbollah-lebanon-war-latest-sky-news-live-12978800 I wonder if Hezbollah realised that Hamas was in effect wiping them out by the Oct 7th attrocities. Ok so they... ...
To the detractors of Boris Johnson I ask; Could any former British PM other than Churchill himself (Thatcher would concur, but she couldn't write.) produce such a clear and unequivocal article... ...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly7zy3d3exo Far be it from me to criticise the outpourings of experts and judges but to the layman they do seem to get carried away with their estimate... ...
https://www.express.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/1953667/fears-rachel-reeves-is-plotting First freeze them to death, then nick what remains of their pension. Can you imagine the uproar if a Tory... ...
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/uk-cyber-attack-network-rail-tfl-message-police-b2619351.html How can it possibly be any sort of "..ophobic" merely to remind people of what... ...
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/09/26/civilians-must-be-ready-to-fight-as-army-so-small-say-lords/ I think many young people would be prepared to defend their country, but there'd also be... ...
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1953649/Uk-foreign-aid-countries-ukraine Yep here's the list of the top 20. The no 1 will come as no surprise but look at nos 3,4 and 5, yep we are funding Islamic... ...
Sir Keir Starmer is set to pay a visit to EU Headquarters Brussels. Next week in a bid to reset relationships with the EU.The PM has lined up talks with Ursula von der Leyen after the pair met at... ...
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/09/25/starmer-covid-broadcast-work-from-home-lord-alli-flat/ Keir Starmer Covid broadcast urging work from home came from donor’s £18m penthouse Sorry its... ...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c756d56d2dro Yep it's good old spiteful Labour. Why is he banned? For posting this: "I don’t think anyone should go to the UK when they’re releasing convicted... ...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2m829lmk9o Why do they care so much about their rear end? We've gone from "Does my bum look big in this" to "Please make my bum look big in anything" -... ...
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/starmer-donor-alli-labour-conference-b2618667.html Yet another donation has come to light, I wonder how many more, he, or members of his Cabinet will... ...
Who could possibly have known? From Private Eye issue 951, dated May 1998 ‘Secretaries have been flown to Paris, plied with gifts and champagne and then sexually propositioned. In October 1993 he... ...