Christopher Silverstein
So I Was Accused of Theft
Seriously...
This weekend saw a first for me in London.
On Saturday my girlfriend and I were in Waterloo when we decided to go to a shop that we had both wanted to visit for a long time. I won’t name the shop because this will not turn out well for them.
When we walked in we both said hello to the attendant of the small shop.
We . . .
Fact or Feelings?
A funny thing happened yesterday
I was speaking with a colleague of mine at work and we started talking about the US Presidential debate. I was going about how the affair was a bit of a train wreck when he mentioned that he had a huge problem with what Google had done to protect Hillary.
I was, of course, curious as I had . . .
The First Presidential Debate
Short Story: Hillary won
She won because she simply had more substance to what she said on stage. Trump resorted to slogans and, at times, mad conspiracy theories. Trump was light on substance but big on showmanship. He knows how to get an audience riled up and, on many occasions throughout the night, he did but, at the end of the . . .
Trump and Farage!
Together at last....
So Trump has called upon the saviour of Britain to campaign for him.
Nigel Farage was one of the key people in the Brexit movement. Up until a few weeks ago he was also the leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP). UKIP’s main goal was to get the UK out of the EU. They have succeeded.
The leave campaigns . . .
It has been a while
Parliament was pretty busy...
So it has been a while since I’ve posted.
I've been busy here in Parliament.
Since I last wrote, the UK was just about to enter a leadership election contest. David Cameron decided to immediately resign as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom with a view to the Conservative Party electing a Prime Minister for the whole . . .
T-plus Four
In other news.
For whatever reason, the news cycle is consumed with the fate of non-executive Members of Parliament aka the mass resignations in Jeremy Corbyn's shadow cabinet.
To look at the coverage today one would assume the UK government was in total disarray, they are but, for now lets just deal with one FUBAR . . .
HEY DONALD TRUMP!
You just broke the law!
Why is Donald Trump asking foreign nationals for donations to his campaign?
Many SNP MPs have been receiving messages from Donald Trump’s campaign to donate money. Emails entitled “They took their country back”, “Lying Crooked Hillary” among others, contain key phrases asking MPs to donate to Trump's campaign. In fact, Trump . . .
Cover image credit: http://Christopher Mullins-Silverstein