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UKIP

July 27, 2018

Call for bribery claims against top Brexit donor to be investigated

Transparency International UK has called for a government investigation into claims that a major player in the UK political process paid bribes to secure a mining licence in Lesotho.
April 19, 2017

A UKIP government in all but name?

You may be in pain because of a delayed operation. You may be unable to get social care for a frail parent. You may be worrying that your child’s school is about to lose teachers.
November 29, 2016

Politics, politicians, and Christianity

The actions of our government and the rhetoric of many politicians seem to become harsher by the day.
July 7, 2016

Post-Brexit: division, flux and mutual responsibility

Referendums should only be used in the most exceptional of circumstances and certainly never as a remedy for a prime minister's insecurities with his own
May 1, 2015

UKIP's Christian group accuses gay people of 'recruiting' children

One of the nastiest accusations against gay people is the claim that they 'recruit' children with the intention of turning them gay.
April 30, 2015

UKIP's 'Christian Manifesto' will be repulsive to many Christian voters

Nigel Farage has just launched UKIP's 'Christian manifesto' promising to put up a "muscular defence of our Christian heritage". Whether Christians in Britain want to be muscularly defended by Nigel Farage is another matter.
April 1, 2015

Vote for us! We're slightly better than the others! (Or: An evening at the Quaker hustings)

Lindsay Northover, a Liberal Democrat junior minister, began her remarks at a Quaker-organised hustings event yesterday by commenting on how few people go to hustings these days.
November 22, 2014

Hypocrisy at the heart of the Thornberry controversy

Welcome to the baffling world of political priorities in 2014.
November 21, 2014

Reckless remarks highlight immigration panic’s human cost

Sitting Rochester and Strood MP Mark Reckless held on to his seat in a by-election after defecting to the UK Independence Party, though with a much-reduced majority.
October 10, 2014

The outsider tamed: will the Farage style survive parliamentary participation?

Politicians rarely make sense in the aftermath of a by-election. Neither Clacton nor Heywood and Middleton (9 October 2014) were exceptions. David Cameron claims that a vote for Ukip will put Ed Miliband in Downing Street. Nigel Farage suggests that voting Labour benefits the Tories.