UK Prime Minister Theresa May survived a vote of no confidence (VONC) with her parliamentary party in December over her proposed Brexit deal with the EU. In the same week she postponed the crucial parliamentary vote on her Brexit deal to January 2019 too much consternation from both sides of the house and political pundits. […]
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The rancorous war of words in the diplomatic spat between the UK and Russia in the aftermath of the Salisbury nerve agent attack on former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia has included some old tactics from the Cold War era.
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A feature of C.21st international development has been Chinese financed or built infrastructure around the world. These are in countries considered by China as strategic trading partners for its exports or to secure its raw materials such as iron ore or oil supplies.
In the lamentable trail of the London’s Grenfell Tower disaster in June 2017 follows another public disaster as Carillion, a large outsourcing and construction services contractor, which had been in financial difficulty from July 2017 with numerous profits warning until January 2018 when it was forced in to compulsory liquidation. The company failed after the
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Events in the Middle East since November 2017 have taken some dramatic steps even for this politically volatile region. Wars in Syria and Iraq grind on against now a much reduced ISIS threat however the Syrian Defence Force/Kurdish (YPG led and US supported) coalition are now vying for land and political control in regained territories.
In light of Britain’s Brexit struggles with the EU negotiators in Brussels embattled Prime Minister Theresa May faces continued dissonance within her party and subsequent dearth ineffective policies for her new minority government. The Conservatives remain as split over the EU and its Brexit outcome as they have ever been since the Maastricht treaty in
Barcelona was battered, bruised and reeling from a weekend of civil unrest after an emotionally charged independence referendum for Catalonia, unsanctioned by the Madrid-based Spanish government, ensued into what appears as extremely heavy-handed treatment by riot police towards voters at polling stations.
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An issue that been casting a long dark shadow over Westminster since June is the Grenfell Tower disaster and what led to the tragedy occurring. It throws a despondent light on the state of public housing procurement and the implementation of building regulations through the entire UK.
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While Brexit negotiations trundle along economic warnings are building up. Former Labour Chancellor during the financial crisis of 10 years ago Lord Darling and former deputy BoE governor Charlie Bean have both recently shared concerns over debt remaining high since the 2008 crisis and an economic slowdown in the UK economy continuing into 2018. The
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The spring time terrorist attacks in both London and Manchester along with the Grenfell Tower fire tragedy in London’s Borough of Kensington and Chelsea have left a painful and fearful legacy in the UK at present. While the new diminished government barely copes.
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