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Labour’s Integrity Test: Why is Councillor Saqib Khan Still in Office?
If Labour wants the moral high ground nationally, it must enforce it locally. Otherwise, its pledge on integrity will look like empty rhetoric.
4 hrs ago
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Mike Olley
Shabana Mahmood, Islamophobia, and the Politics of Fear
My Asian friends, who I trust and whose experiences I respect, are equally surprised. They tell me plainly that her account is not their reality.
Oct 2
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Mike Olley
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When the Showpiece Slips: Starmer the Prime Minister, the Bookies, and the Veil Torn Away
Starmer is still trailing behind Nigel Farage, despite some very human moments in his speech.
Oct 1
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Mike Olley
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September 2025
When the Graphs Lie and the Lamp Posts Tell the Truth
Polls twitch like weather vanes. Lamp posts, by contrast, are stubborn barometers. They don’t spin at every gust of opinion.
Sep 30
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Mike Olley
The Heat Is Here: Stop the Pledges, Start the Preparation
The planet is hotter, people are sicker, and lives are shorter because of it.
Sep 29
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Mike Olley
A Grand Day Out: Three Generations at Accrington Stanley, Football’s Heritage Site
You don’t need UNESCO to tell you when you’re standing on heritage. You feel it. It’s in the terraces, the chip vans, the accents, the scarves.
Sep 28
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Mike Olley
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Papers Please? Not in Britain
ID cards were first brought in by Neville Chamberlain, Birmingham’s own Prime Minister, as a wartime measure in 1939. Winston Churchill scrapped them in…
Sep 27
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Mike Olley
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Britain Won’t Rebuild Itself With Paint and Press Releases
A nation stripped bare. Assets flogged at knock-down prices to investors who bled them dry, piled on debt, then queued for taxpayer bailouts when it all…
Sep 26
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Mike Olley
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CORBYN SAYS SORRY AGAIN: NEW PARTY DESCENDS INTO MEMBERSHIP MAYHEM
Jeremy Corbyn urges supporters to “move on” after a botched membership launch — while Zarah Sultana fumes and the Midlands wonders what it’s all for.
Sep 25
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Mike Olley
Empty Suit Minister Confirms Bevin a Giant
Chris McDonald calls the JLR cyber-attack a “wake-up call for industry” — but it’s a wake-up call for him.
Sep 24
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Mike Olley
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Inside Britain’s ‘Hell Jail’ vs America’s Supermax: Who Keeps the Monsters Locked Down Better?
Britain risks its officers. America buries its inmates. Who’s got it right?
Sep 23
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Mike Olley
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“Your Party” to “No Party”: Corbyn’s New Left Dream Descends Into Chaos
Launch marred by money rows, activist coups and bitter infighting as Zarah Sultana threatens legal action and grassroots demand MPs step aside
Sep 22
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Mike Olley
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