Republic is celebrating May 5 a year on from the coronation 2023 is the year everything changed. To celebrate that change - and our determination to win this campaign - May 5th this year will be the first national Republic Day, featuring a major event in Trafalgar Square. This will be the first anniversary weekend of the coronation, the arrests and a moment that shifted the debate about the monarchy's future. Republic Day 2024 www.republic.org.uk If I'm not... Read more ..read more

Humza Yousaf, along with the First Minister and the leader of Glasgow City Council, has been outspoken about “racist thuggery” underpinning some protests in Glasgow’s George Square Crisis talks have taken place between Humza Yousaf and the leader of the Orange Order in Scotland after volatile mass gatherings brought shame on the country. The Scottish Justice Secretary spoke with Grand Master Jim McHarg online amid fears that sectarian and racist disorder is running... Read more ..read more

As a module of the Independent Child Sexual Abuse Inquiry in the UK the report on the Catholic Church has been published. Nothing we won't already be familiar with but of course Archbish Nichols doesn't emerge very well from it and is facing calls to resign. The Roman Catholic Church Investigation Report​ 'Between 1970 and 2015, the Roman Catholic Church received more than 900 complaints involving over 3,000 instances of child sexual abuse against more than 900... Read more ..read more

Mr Galloway, who has now been an MP for three different parties - Labour, the Respect Party and now the Workers' Party of Britain - won the by-election with over 12,000 votes or nearly 40% of the total. In his victory speech, Mr Galloway began by focusing on Palestine, saying: "Keir Starmer, this is for Gaza. "You have paid, and you will pay, a high price for the role that you have played in enabling, encouraging and covering for the catastrophe presently going on in... Click to expand... Read more ..read more

For an outsider such as myself, the priority of course is that peace is maintained, and trade is impacted as little as possible. I saw Mary Lou appear on Sky News recently with that thundering woman, Kay Burley. A variety of topics were covered but the foremost being a united Ireland. To my only partially informed perspective, best case scenario would be the UK hadn't exited the EU, but in fact joined the Euro zone, and we'd all potentially be one unit. As the video... Read more ..read more

Extraordinary scenes in the House of Commons this evening, with both SNP and Tories leaving the chamber at one point, calls for the House to sit in private, and Lindsay Hoyle's position as speaker hanging in the balance. Explained: Why Speaker's decision on Gaza debate has sparked anger Sir Lindsay Hoyle is under fire from the SNP and Conservatives after he broke with convention by selecting a Labour amendment to be subject to a debate and vote. news.sky.com In short the SNP, during their opposition day tabled a motion calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. Labour, having previousl ..read more

David Miller is considered by many to be one of the leading sociologists in the UK but equally regarded by others much more negatively. His research into the connections between the Zionist movement and the organized anti-Islam and Muslim movement in the West drew particular wrath with more than one attempt to have him fired from his position in Bristol on the grounds of beliefs that he was an anti-Jewish anti-Semite with the University finally crumbling after dismissing after serious... Read more ..read more

So a former General of the British army has opined that Britain may have to re-introduce conscription. Sir Richard Shirreff says there is a risk of war with Russia, and Britain will need large numbers of troops to meet the needs of the armed forces. British forces numbers have been falling in recent years, causing concern to British generals. In addition, the falling birthrates of recent decades have made it extra-difficult to fill the ranks of the British armed forces. Britain has... Read more ..read more

Remarkably, considering the recent fallout, this story, which has dominated the British media since the start of the year, hasn't yet merited its own thread on the UK Forum to date, particularly as it has been described as the most extensive miscarriage of justice in British history, in terms of the sheer numbers of innocent people convicted of crimes they did not commit, or who were effectively defrauded of their life savings by the Post Office, which reflected in that organisation's... Read more ..read more

Hizb ut-Tahir are a group that I personally find problematic however calling them a terror group is downright sinister, they certainly do not advocate for what used to be understood as terrorism by everyone until very, very recently, and nor do I think they should banned. By all accounts he is skilled at his job and the NHS have used to helped train in young doctors in recognition of that. Also I believe that his comments as shown below which led to this action and Hizb ut-Tahir being made... Read more ..read more