Incompetent Councils

The Labour-run Slough council, a Berkshire local authority declared a a section 114 notice in July l (bankruptcy) last year 2021 .....

Slough Borough Council

..... as a result of its £760m borrowing debt (much of it channelled into property investment), and a cumulative budget deficit of at least £174m by 2025 - I can't recall a UK local authority going bankrupt before.

Preaching To The Converted?

The sight of Michelle Obama giving an impassioned speech on the subject of the achievement of hope and aspirations for women in a Western society, to a girls school in London should not have been incongruous.

She has after all given similar speeches to girls across the globe. However in this case it was in Tower Hamlets. .. a rotten borough of London, and her audience was 95% Muslim. The young girls wore conservative dress and head coverings, and the talk of the freedom to believe what they liked, do what they wanted, or marry who they wished, must have been almost laughable, if they had even understood the concepts.

The Future Of Britain?