Something about Angela Rayner turns a whole lot of male politicians and commentators into jumpy and horny teenage boys. This Sunday, in the Sunday Times, Jason Cowley, editor of the New Statesman, portrayed her as ‘a flame-haired, dangerous Labour beast’, vulnerable and anxious, and also, ‘self-glamourizing and self-mythologising’. In 2022, some unnamed male Conservative MPsContinue reading “Yasmin’s Eye on …. Not Knowing Their Place”
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Sunak Announces Increase In UK Defence Spending
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has announced that the UK will spend 2.5% of its GDP on defence by 2030, up from approximately 2.1% at present and well in excess of the NATO benchmark figure of 2%. He had been under some pressure since the Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s last budget statement had nothing for defence.Continue reading “Sunak Announces Increase In UK Defence Spending”