Current Affairs
The Pandemic’s Members-Only Club
Mone & Barrowman: Headliners in a Rotten Circus Baroness Michelle Mone and Doug Barrowman are the glittering billboard of Covid corruption. They set up PPE Medpro in May 2020, and on the very same day it was incorporated, they landed a contract worth £122 million. Not bad for a company that didn’t exist the week before. Of course, the gowns were unusable, the contracts collapsed, and now the High Court wants the money back. Crooks, ...
OUTRAGE IN LONDON: MIGRANT SEEN WRESTLING SWAN BEFORE WALTZING INTO THE RITZ
By a Maily Expressgraph Correspondent It was a scene straight out of a dystopian nightmare. On a crisp autumn afternoon in St James’s Park, horrified onlookers claim they saw a migrant brazenly wrestle a swan to the ground before casually strolling through London with the bloody carcass tucked under his arm. Fierce Fight Passers-by reported the bird put up a fierce fight. “Swans don’t go quietly,” one witness told us. “But ...
Patriotism Is Fun — Until the Nationalists Spoil It
I don’t think there’s anything wrong with patriotism, especially when it comes to sport. In fact, I believe it’s one of the best parts of it. Flags in windows, anthems sung badly, pints flying across the pub in the last minute — it’s daft, partisan and forgivable fun. For a short while, I reckon we’re all on the same team, and it feels good. Sport gives us that rare excuse to lose ourselves in tribalism without any real harm being ...
Why I Voted for Starmer — and Why I’m Now Questioning Him
When the last election came around, many on the socialist end of the political spectrum couldn’t bring themselves to vote for Keir Starmer. They saw him as a compromise too far, a man who had already edged away from the transformative politics they wanted. I understood that view but I still chose differently. Voting for Sensible Action I voted Labour under Starmer not because I thought he was perfect, but because I believed he would ...
Why Prime Ministers Shouldn’t Play Hide-and-Seek With Their Taxes
Ask a politician what taxes are for and you’ll get the fairy-tale version: they fund schools, hospitals and keep the bins collected. Lovely. It makes us feel that every pound we hand over is a moral contribution to society, rather than just another reason we can’t justify £20 for a steak sandwich down at the local pub. The Economists Can’t Agree But economists can’t leave anything simple. The conventional crowd argue that taxes ...