Apologies in advance for the markedly slimmed-down version of today’s Frank Report. As the better half of clan Haviland malingers in hospital with pneumonia, that leaves me quite literally holding the baby – and there are only so many words you can type while simultaneously cooking, wiping arses, and role playing Peppa Pig. Excuses duly […]
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(Photograph: Surrey County Council News, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons) Don’t be fooled by the UK constabulary’s failure to engage when it comes to jihad – that peaceful, ‘inner struggle’ afflicting Muslims as they agonise over Weetabix or Cheerios at the breakfast table; it’s just that plod understands the nuances of these matters
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On Wednesday evening, thousands of pro-Palestinian protestors congregated to pray in support of Gaza. Roads were blocked off, and the adhan (the Muslim call to prayer) was broadcast at a dizzying volume. Where was this you might ask? Just outside Downing Street of course – where else? The demonstration was revealing more for what didn’t
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The Frank Report is proud to be your go-to summary of political shenanigans, and our latest instalment is no exception. The major news from Westminster this week, was that Keir Starmer’s Labour have taken the safe Tory seat of Tamworth, with the second-highest ever by-election swing of 23.9%. Respected psephologist Sir John Curtice, commented that “no government
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“Look what you made me do!” So often goes the stereotypical line of the domestic abuser after being ‘forced’ to grant his wife her umpteenth black eye for failing to come to heel. I can’t help but reflect on that sick form of manipulation when observing the fallout from the Israel-Hamas war. Much like the
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They say it’s all downhill after 40, but in my case it was more of a freefall. While I’ve never been particularly athletic, I’d always been active: a professional juggler for over a decade, with swimming and a little (very) amateur boxing thrown in for good measure. Everything was fine until I hit the big
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(Photograph: Derek Bennett, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons) Unlike the Tory and Labour pilgrimages up north, last Saturday’s Reform UK Party Conference was held closer to Westminster, at London’s prestigious Hilton Metropole. While the British media did not appear particularly interested, the turnout was certainly more enthusiastic than the Conservative sojourn in Manchester,
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The Frank Report has just returned from the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool, and your correspondent couldn’t have gotten out of there fast enough; even with a first-class ticket on HS2! With the Tories about as effective as a Diane Abbott cue card, you’d expect Labour’s Fab Four (Starmer, Cooper, Lammy and Reeves) to resonate
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(Photograph: David Woolfall, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons) Apart from its decade-long love affair with Tony Blair, the British electorate hasn’t allowed the Labour Party anywhere near its boudoir for the best part of half a century. It’s been a feature of successive Labour Party Conferences to promise the moon and stars—safe in
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You can tell everything about the state of a political party by its autumn party conference. For the Conservatives, last week’s shindig held at Manchester’s Central Convention Complex had all the energy of an autopsy. If Rishi Sunak was hoping for a favourable eulogy however, he was to be disappointed. As you’d expect when you’re
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