Labour Peer Urges Starmer to Step Down Due to Mandelson Controversy
Calls for Starmer to Resign Over Mandelson Appointment Key Labor MPs are increasingly urging Prime Minister Keir Starmer to step down following the appointment of Sir Peter Mandelson as the U.S. ambassador. This appointment has stirred controversy due to Mandelson’s connections to the late financier Jeffrey Epstein, who was a convicted pedophile. The situation recently […]
Labour peer apologizes for contacting the Treasury to support the cryptocurrency company he advised.
Keir Starmer’s associates and a trade mission have issued an apology for breaching the House of Representatives’ code of conduct by contacting the Treasury to advocate for a cryptocurrency firm that employed him. Ian McNicol, the former general secretary of the Labour Party, was found to have broken the rules in June 2023 for providing […]
Labour peer faces cash-for-access questions – podcast | House of Lords
Lord David Evans, 82, of Watford, offered access to the minister during a discussion about commercial transactions, a secret investigation can reveal. Lord Evans has been documented as a guardian masked reporter who pretended to be a real estate developer seeking to lobby the government on how to approach Deputy Prime Minister and Housing Secretary […]
Cape Cod teen John Sheeran avoids jail time in attempted drowning of black peer: DA
A Cape Cod teenager pleaded guilty to attempting to own death of a fellow black man in the pond, spitting racial slander during Wednesday's sentencing. John Sheeran, 15, of Chatham, Massachusetts, will provide approximately 700 hours of community service after attempting to murder and assault on dangerous weapons charges in December. He also needs to […]
US health system ranks last compared with peer nations, report finds | US news
The U.S. health care system ranked last in an international comparison of 10 countries. New reports By the Commonwealth Fund. Americans spend nearly twice as much on health care as other countries, yet our health care system performs poorly on health equity, access, and outcomes. “I see the human toll of these flaws every day,” […]
UK has once-in-a-generation chance to allow assisted dying, says Labour peer | Assisted dying
Labour Lords, who advocated for legal change, said Parliament faced a once-in-a-generation opportunity to give terminally ill people the choice whether to end their own lives. Charlie Falconer, a former Lord Chancellor who introduced the Bill in the House of Lords last month, said he had received assurances from Downing Street that the Bill would […]
Peer Reviewed Skepticism
Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes A fine skeptical journal article waded through Green Pal review. Wonder of wonders! The journal is the American Journal of Economics and Sociology. The article title is perfectly clear: “Carbon dioxide and a warming climate are not problems”. See https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ajes.12579 ADVERTISEMENT But it is an “Early View Online Version of Record […]