The Union is founded on the values of respect for human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law and respect for human rights, including the rights of persons belonging to minorities. These values are common to the Member States in a society in which pluralism, non-discrimination, tolerance, justice, solidarity and equality between women and men prevail.
KJ Garnett Reputation, reputation, reputation! Oh, I have lost my reputation! Cassio Reputation is an idle and most false imposition, oft got without merit and lost without deserving. You have lost no reputation at all unless you repute yourself such a loser. Iago Othello, Act 2 Scene 3 During an impassioned discussion on Brexit I …
Continue reading Fair comment or salacious slander ? Changing the narrative through rumour and libel
Many voted to leave the European Union on 23 June 2016 because they felt assured by the promises of Vote Leave. We would be starting a process, a happy journey to a better future. But, crucially, a journey where we would be in control, whose pace and direction we would determine for ourselves. And whose …
Anyone who is a fan of “Who do you think you are” may have seen that our new Prime Minister has German blood coursing through his veins. The Johnson family legend has it that the De Pfeffel’s were an ancient French aristocratic family. BBC research threw-up a slightly different story. It turns out the De …
Continue reading Does Johnson suffer from Baron De Pfeffel-Pfaffel Von Wiffle-Waffle Syndrome?
K J Garnett It is a well known fact that to qualify as a Black London cab driver a cabbie must first pass “The Knowledge”. What a shame then that our very own Prime Minister, her Brexit team and Her Majesty’s Official Opposition (Jeremy Corbyn) are not required to pass an equally rigorous and challenging …
So there’s to be a snap general election. Many are running scared predicting that the 48% who voted remain do not have a snowball in hell’s chance of winning on 8th of June. The 48% are too divided to find common cause. Many are assuming that the only party defending the 48%, the Liberal Democrats, …
Today Theresa May will send a letter triggering Article 50. She asks the whole nation to unite around Brexit. This is impossible because a referendum won on a simple majority is not decisive. It is divisive. In many respects half the nation is now more pro-European than many living in Belgium. Ode to Joy was the …
Without wishng to sound too conspiratorial or over paranoid we have reached a stage in the United Kingdom where it has to be asked who exactly is running our country? Our Prime Minister and her government or the newspapers and their possies of editors and/or proprietors? When Barnier begins his negotiations with the UK to exit the …
