Brexit Culture & Lifestyle Featured News Politics 2019 Election: lies, fakery and subterfuge – is Britain’s Orwellian dystopia the new normal? 24 Nov 2019 Tannice As I write this, Boris Johnson is in the midst of revealing his manifesto for the looming December 12 election. Coming just hours after a new poll suggested the Tories
Brexit News Politics Bercow’s Brexit: Mr Speaker’s legacy and the political omnishambles 4 Nov 2019 Tannice Accused by keen Brexit proponents of continually trying to frustrate Brexit, yet lauded by others as the honourable upholder of parliamentary rule, John Bercow is a hugely polarising character. Regardless
Featured News Politics Scapegoating the brave: Grenfell Tower report and media response come under the microscope 30 Oct 2019 Tannice The scathing and ‘hard-hitting’ report, by Sir Martin Moore-Bick, hit the headlines yesterday after it was leaked to national paper, The Daily Telegraph. But what does the media response to
Awards Books Culture & Lifestyle Booker Prize mired in controversy as judges ‘break the rules’ 22 Oct 2019 Tannice It seems that 2019 is the year of disagreement and rebellion. Watching our politicians struggle to reach a decision on Brexit, should it be any wonder that the judges of
Brexit Business Culture & Lifestyle Featured News Politics Brexit: The beginning of the end? It’s not even the end of the beginning 19 Oct 2019 Tannice Since Boris Johnson became Prime Minister, we have passed no legislation, with the exception of the Domestic Abuse Bill. Our Parliament simply isn’t working. It’s not functioning. Yesterday, we heard
Cinema Hollywood Movies News Women Can new movie Bombshell explode political apathy around sexual harassment? 16 Oct 2019 Tannice Starring Margot Robbie, Nicole Kidman, Charlize Theron and an almost unrecognisable John Lithgoe, what can upcoming movie ‘Bombshell’ bring to our post-#metoo society? The first trailer I saw told me
Brexit Business Featured Health Mental Health News Politics Is Brexit ‘doing your head in’? You’re not alone, however you voted 3 Oct 2019 Tannice With the news that Brexit uncertainty caused one vulnerable man to succumb to an attack of psychosis, SSZeeMedia ask, could Brexit be bad for your health? Tannice Hemming investigates. Described
Featured News Politics Boris Johnson and his cult of personality – what’s next for our faux fop of a Prime Minister? 28 Sep 2019 Tannice According to Sun Tzu’s ‘Art of War’, all warfare is based on deception. And there is no greater deceiver than our Prime Minister, whose mask of affable tomfoolery and “jolly
Awards Books Culture & Lifestyle News “Contemporary, diverse” and female-dominated, the Booker Prize short-list is revealed 4 Sep 2019 Tannice Four of the six books announced as the Booker Prize’s 2019 short-list are penned by female authors, with previous winners Margaret Atwood (2000, The Blind Assassin) jostling for attention against
Culture & Lifestyle Music News Lizzo is everything, K-Pop controversy rages on and Sebastian Maniscalco hits the headlines – lowdown on 2019’s VMAs 27 Aug 2019 Tannice It’s now two years since the word ‘woke’ was added to the Oxford English Dictionary. The slang term, now often used pejoratively, came originally from Black Activists Black Lives Matter.
