All articles by: arosthorn
Theresa May and Piggy Muldoon
Published: October 25, 2016
Written by Andrew Rosthorn
WHEN Theresa May sent her attorney general to court last week to stop Parliament deciding on Brexit, she stepped on a legal trip wire laid forty years ago in New …
Theresa May and Piggy Muldoon
Published: October 24, 2016
Written by Andrew Rosthorn
WHEN Theresa May sent her attorney general to court last week to stop Parliament deciding on Brexit, she stepped on a legal trip wire laid forty years ago in New …
Published: October 10, 2016
Written by Andrew Rosthorn
Rudd’s List
Published: October 6, 2016
Written by Andrew Rosthorn
The Times, London October 5: Companies will be forced to reveal how many foreign workers they employ under government plans to shame bosses who fail to take on British staff. …
Published: October 3, 2016
Written by Andrew Rosthorn
Don’t it always seem to go…
Published: September 28, 2016
Written by Andrew Rosthorn
In a skeleton argument for next month’s High Court battle against the government, Helen Mountfield QC has listed the human rights we will forfeit in a Brexit without parliamentary approval. …
Whose finger on the trigger?
Published: September 10, 2016
Written by Andrew Rosthorn
Jolyon Maugham QC, a barrister challenging the power of Theresa May to activate Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, says the Prime Minister has no right to start Brexit. It’s …
Published: September 7, 2016
Written by Andrew Rosthorn
Theresa Watches Cricket as Fox Pulls Out of Single Market
Published: August 30, 2016
Written by Andrew Rosthorn
On the bank holiday weekend, when prime minister Theresa May watched the cricket at Lords, the stevedores of Southampton loaded a Swedish ship with the cars and machines that Britain …
Published: August 29, 2016
Written by Andrew Rosthorn
Tweaking PAYE to stay in Single Market
Published: August 26, 2016
Written by Andrew Rosthorn
The UK government could slow down immigration without breaking EU rules. Chartered accountant Philip Shirley claims a simple tweak of the Pay As You Earn tax system would discourage EU …
Angie The Dyke: A Wallasey Folk Myth
Published: August 1, 2016
Written by Andrew Rosthorn
The vice-chairman of the now suspended Wallasey Labour Party blames former cabinet minister Tessa Jowell for spreading a folk myth that members called their MP ‘Angie the Dyke’. In a …
The Welsh Contender
Published: July 13, 2016
Written by Andrew Rosthorn
Former shadow cabinet minister Owen Smith will stand for the Labour leadership. The MP for Pontypridd and son of Labour historian Professor Dai Smith said he could be a “radical …
Published: July 5, 2016
Written by Andrew Rosthorn
Published: June 30, 2016
Written by Andrew Rosthorn
The Runaway Train is Rolling
Published: June 25, 2016
Written by Andrew Rosthorn
Like the four runaway Alaskan locomotives in Andrei Konchalovsky’s 1985 survival thriller, the United Kingdom is now in the hands of two dangerous men. But our runaway train hasn’t hit …
They all want a piece of Nye
Published: June 3, 2016
Written by Andrew Rosthorn
Sixty-five years after Aneurin Bevan walked out of Clement Attlee’s government in a row over NHS charges on spectacles and dentistry, Bevan was the big name on the Welsh hustings. …
Staggers on the Beach
Published: May 27, 2016
Written by Andrew Rosthorn
When our colleagues at the New Statesman chose the Irish-born professor of the history of international relations at Cambridge to demolish Boris Johnson’s Brexit fantasies, they chose well. In four …
GMB & Unite Lose Strike Ballot
Published: May 25, 2016
Written by Andrew Rosthorn
The Merseyside shipyard workers who won an international battle to build the new £200 million polar research ship have voted against striking to save 68 jobs. Unite and GMB union …
A Week Is A Long Time In Politics
Published: May 22, 2016
Written by Andrew Rosthorn
The question, “Who did pay that AEU fine?” posed by Paul Routledge in his recent Tribune review of Keith McDowall’s political memoir Before Spin, can at last be answered – …
GMB Strike Ballot at Cammell Laird
Published: May 21, 2016
Written by Andrew Rosthorn
The shipyard workers’ union is fighting 68 compulsory redundancies declared last Friday at the Birkenhead shipyard. GMB and Unite called a meeting of around 480 members after the company announced …