The Carpathia isn’t coming to rescue this government still swimming in the mire, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
The Tory cronies handed a place in the Lords
Peers in the House of Lords
As the RMT Health and Safety Conference takes place, the union is calling for urgent action on crisis of work-related stress, understaffing and the growing threat of workplace assaults. RMT leader EDDIE DEMPSEY explains
Current polling shows Scottish Labour faces a stark choice: break decisively with Westminster or continue its slide into irrelevance, warns VINCE MILLS
As discussions continue between the US and Iran over the Islamic Republic’s nuclear enrichment programme, the suppression of internal dissent by the theocratic dictatorship grows. STEVE BISHOP reports.
Last weekend’s inaugural conference mixed warmth, unity and ambition with the unmistakable echo of old arguments. MATT KERR wonders whether the fledgling party’s difficulties can be overcome
The US president’s career is defined by a consistent use of racist tropes and provocation. Why are world leaders so silent over his repeated vitriolic prejudice, asks ROGER McKENZIE
THERESA MAY threw away Tory domination by losing seats in the general election. So last month she tried to build it up again by using the undemocratic bit of government — May created nine new Tory lords, plus one DUP lord.
In the general election, the Tories got 13.6 million votes, Labour got 12.8m votes, and the DUP got 292,000 votes. But Labour got just three new lords out of the process.
So was this an undemocratic attempt to shore up the Tories by giving jobs to unimpressive cronies? Of course it was. After all, one of the new Lords is Eric Pickles. He couldn’t make it as a minister, so he becomes a lord.
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