Support NewsLeaf.com from as little as £1 by donating via PayPal. Click here to donate. Dominic Cummings has left. Walking out of Downing Street with a cardboard box; standing on the curb of Whitehall like a Parliamentary staffer after a long night at the Red Lion. Dominic Cummings’ tumultuous term in Downing Street is over. […]
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*Support NewsLeaf.com by becoming a Patron today by clicking here.* After it was announced several months ago that Boris Johnson was looking for a press secretary, Britain reeled at the possibility of a party-political hack – akin to the United States’ Kayleigh McEnany – becoming the new face of British politics. Never one to shy […]
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*Support NewsLeaf.com from as little as £1 via PayPal by clicking here. In recent days I have witnessed many disingenuous arguments being made about “white lives” and why those “don’t matter”, from many people who really ought to understand what the protests really mean. However, many people do not know what the meaning behind Black Lives Matter is, […]
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*Support NewsLeaf.com from as little as £1 via PayPal by clicking here. The hashtag, ‘#IHateJohnsonBecause’, is trending on Twitter in the UK today after a viral tweet by Tim Walker, an award-winning journalist at The New European newspaper. After Mr Tim Walker, a former colleague of Boris Johnson, listed his reason for hating the Prime […]
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IMAGE: Piers Morgan | Author & Source: Dominick D | CC BY-SA 2.0 ___________________________________________________________________________ *Support NewsLeaf.com from as little as £1 via PayPal by clicking here. A few months ago, I would have never even thought of writing an article in defence of Piers Morgan, a host on ITV’s Good Morning Britain. His brotherly admiration […]
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IMAGE: U.S. Vice President Joe Biden | State Department photo/ Public Domain Heading into the 11th – and quite possibly final – Democratic debate the stakes were at their highest, with Bernie Sanders needing to prove that the race was not over, and Joe Biden having to arrest fears about his mental state, following a series […]
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Image by Noman Saeed from Pixabay Pakistanis are observing another ‘Kashmir Solidarity Hour’ today. Politicians, famous people and officials of various sectors are expressing their solidarity with the people of Kashmir today. Pakistan also observed a similar ‘Kashmir Solidarity Hour‘ last year to raise awareness about the human rights violations the people of that region are being subjected […]
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Picture Credits: Image by A. H. from Pixabay Iain Duncan Smith, the father of the ‘heartless’ Universal Credit system, is to receive a knighthood as part of the New Year’s Honours list, it has been reported. The former Tory leader and long-serving MP is most notably known for his austere welfare policies. Human rights advocates, opposition politicians and […]
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Ever since I was a schoolboy and first became aware of politics, I always felt I could sleep soundly in the knowledge that the prime ministers I counted in and counted out – irrespective of whether the rosettes they wore were red or blue – did not wish to actively damage our country or indeed […]
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Public perceptions of MPs and Westminster have never been so negative. Today fewer people are turning out to vote than ever before. But what is it about the way politics is conducted in Britain today that has put so many off? Could it be a result of the archaic traditions, shown most prominently at the […]
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