Trump Names New Lead Lawyers for Impeachment Defense Team

Trump Names New Lead Lawyers for Impeachment Defense Team

Former President Donald Trump on Sunday named two attorneys who will lead his impeachment defense legal team. The two lawyers who will represent the former president in the upcoming Senate trial are David Schoen, an attorney from Alabama, and Bruce Castor Jr., a former prosecutor in Pennsylvania. This comes a day after media reports, citing anonymous…

Andrew Gimson’s Commons sketch: The comedian has learned how to play tragedy

Andrew Gimson’s Commons sketch: The comedian has learned how to play tragedy

The pandemic has changed Boris Johnson. He is better than he was a year ago at being the sombre bearer of bad tidings, the leader who expresses the nation’s grief. Both at yesterday afternoon’s Downing Street press conference, and today at PMQs and in his Commons statement, he struck the right note of unadorned sorrow….

Benedict Rogers: The Government urgently needs an integration plan for those fleeing oppression in Hong Kong

Benedict Rogers: The Government urgently needs an integration plan for those fleeing oppression in Hong Kong

Benedict Rogers is a human rights activist and writer and a former parliamentary candidate. He is the co-founder and Chief Executive of Hong Kong Watch, co-founder and Deputy Chair of the UK Conservative Party Human Rights Commission and a member of the advisory group of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC). On July 1 last…

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Biden Orders End to Private Prisons in Package to Achieve ‘Racial Equity’

Denouncing what he called “systemic racism that has plagued our nation for far, far too long,” President Joe Biden signed executive actions Tuesday aimed at “racial equity,” including a measure to end the use of private prisons to hold federal inmates.  “We are in a battle for the soul of this nation and the simple…

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Media Betrays Bias With ‘Reporting’ on Biden Inauguration

There is a perception, supported by many surveys, that what passes for contemporary journalism is more biased, even propagandistic, than in earlier times. One of the definitions of “journalism” on Dictionary.com will affirm that attitude for many: “writing that reflects superficial thought and research, a popular slant, and hurried composition…” Journalism has, in fact, been…

Bernard Jenkin: How long can the intensity of vaccination be sustained?

Bernard Jenkin: How long can the intensity of vaccination be sustained?

Bernard Jenkin MP is Chair of the Liaison Committee, and MP for Harwich and North Essex. The government’s foresight in placing large-scale speculative orders for vaccines in development means that there is now real hope that the UK will emerge from the Covid-19 crisis well ahead of its peers. However, unless this early success is…

Newslinks for Tuesday 26th January 2021

Newslinks for Tuesday 26th January 2021

EU ‘threatens to block exports of Pfizer Covid vaccine’ “Britain’s Covid vaccine supply is in jeopardy after the EU threatened to block exports of the Belgian-made Pfizer jabs amid a row with UK-based AstraZeneca. Brussels decided to impose tighter controls on exports after reacting with fury to the news that AstraZeneca will deliver 50 million…