All posts tagged: opinion

The House Opinion Article | Green Councils Fight For Drug Consumption Rooms

The House Opinion Article | Green Councils Fight For Drug Consumption Rooms

Published by Sam Flores

Glasgow, The Thistle injection bay areas (Alamy) 12 min read37 min The Green Party’s success in English local elections has put fresh impetus behind efforts to follow Scotland in providing safer drug consumption facilities to addicts. Matilda Martin investigates At the end of a short and unassuming driveway at 55 Hunter Street in Glasgow lies The Thistle. From the outside, the pebble-dash-style one-storey block looks like any other NHS healthcare centre. But what unfolds behind its doors is unique. In January 2025, the site became home to the first safer drug consumption facility (SDCF) in the United Kingdom. Here, individuals can inject their own drugs under clinical supervision, while at the same time accessing treatment and support. Ultimately, campaigners and experts argue that such a move could be replicated in England at a local authority level, if arrangements were made with local police forces. While a change in the law to allow such facilities would be more straightforward for councils, it may not be entirely necessary, as Scotland has demonstrated. Now well into …

The Tyranny Of One Man’s Opinion

The Tyranny Of One Man’s Opinion

Published by Jenni Sidey

Authored by Judge Andrew P. Napolitano via LewRockwell.com, Thomas Cromwell was the Lord Chancellor of England for much of the reign of King Henry VIII. He engineered the convictions and executions of many whom Henry wanted out of the way, including his two predecessors in office – one of whom was St. Thomas More – and even the king’s second wife, Queen Anne. When Cromwell’s son Gregory, who became sickened as he watched his father devolving from counselor to monster, learned that an executioner for the queen had been sent for from France a week before her trial, he asked his father what the purpose of her trial was if the king had preordained the queen’s guilt and prepaid the executioner. Cromwell replied that the king needed a jury to give the appearance of legitimacy to her conviction and prevent the public perception of “the tyranny of one man’s opinion.” In America, we have a Constitution not only to prevent the perception but also the reality of the tyranny of one man’s opinion. The Constitution’s …

Women Are Talking About The Cornell Seven. Why Aren’t Men?

Women Are Talking About The Cornell Seven. Why Aren’t Men?

Published by Sam Flores

If you open Instagram right now, you’ll see them, over and over again. The faces of the seven former Cornell students accused of drugging, assaulting and gang raping a female classmate, identified only as Jane Doe. But that’s not all you’ll find. Scroll and you’ll see women sharing infographics, their outrage, their experiences; tearing open wounds, taking on the educational labour – yet again – in a powerful act of opposing male violence. You’ll find women telling other women that they believe her, and talking about rape culture, because for us, sexual violence isn’t a new story. After all, the latest ONS figures for England and Wales estimate that 739,000 women aged 16+ experienced sexual assault in the year ending March 2025. We’re encouraged to raise men who aren’t rapists, keep an eye on our drinks, call our friends on our walk home, ask for Angela, dress a certain way, make sure we don’t lead anyone on, do all we can to avoid anything that could lead to us one day being told ’well, what …

The House Opinion Article | The Choices Facing Burnham’s Government On Water

The House Opinion Article | The Choices Facing Burnham’s Government On Water

Published by Sam Flores

Illustration by Tracy Worrall 8 min read3 hr Campaigning in Makerfield, Andy Burnham threatened Thames Water with public ownership – but has not so far followed through. Ben Gartside reports on a decision that will define his approach to privately owned suppliers of public goods. What, exactly, does the word ‘control’ mean when applied to those entities that supply vital public goods? Does it mean full nationalisation, with every decision in the hands of ministers and officials in Whitehall? Or does it rather mean that customers exercise a measure of control over their operation through ownership of a portion of equity? Or some other variant in which locally elected representatives take a golden share in the companies that serve their region? These are not theoretical questions but are coming sharply into focus as Andy Burnham wrestles with what to do about Thames Water. As of today, Thames Water supplies 16 million customers, owes more than £20bn and has been in breach of its licence for two years. A large portion of the Labour …

The House Opinion Article | It’s Time For The Whips To Find Their Voice

The House Opinion Article | It’s Time For The Whips To Find Their Voice

Published by Sam Flores

ASTIK 7 min read12 min There were once good arguments for the whips’ silence but Sebastian Whale argues it’s now in their own interests to find their voice Why don’t whips speak in public? Is there, perhaps, a helium leak in their lairs just off Members’ Lobby? It would, after all, hardly help instil fear if when they spoke it was not in a menacing growl but a squeak. Nonsense of course, but no less silly than some of the myths about them churned out by the Westminster rumour mill that go largely unanswered as whips stick to their omertà. Now that Andy Burnham has vowed to reform the whipping system as Prime Minister, they are about to find their roles under intense scrutiny. And this time they should answer for themselves – in public. Keir Starmer’s relationship with the bulk of his MPs went from bad to worse and his successor wants the whips’ office to act as more of an HR department than a disciplinary organisation. Among his arguments …

The House Opinion Article | Who’s Who In Andy Burnham’s No 10?

The House Opinion Article | Who’s Who In Andy Burnham’s No 10?

Published by Sam Flores

Illustrations by Tracy Worrall 17 min read12 min Andy Burnham’s backroom is taking shape. Sienna Rodgers gives a rundown of which movers and shakers in Labour politics have been appointed to the new No 10 It was not just that Sir Keir Starmer was fundamentally unsuited to the role of prime minister, say many senior people behind the scenes in Labour, but that his No 10 did not function properly – and indeed that the centre of government had not been working for some time. The new Prime Minister thus began his tenure with major machinery of government changes, creating ‘the Office of the Prime Minister and Cabinet’ to assert authority over the Cabinet Office. This was a much-needed reform in the eyes of many including the Institute for Government, though the think tank is concerned it did not go far enough given that the Cabinet Office “lives on, in a hollowed-out form”. Under Burnham, the top task now for the Cabinet Office is said to be answering the question: how …

Queen Elizabeth’s real opinion on Princess Kate’s ‘unprofessional’ hair

Queen Elizabeth’s real opinion on Princess Kate’s ‘unprofessional’ hair

Published by Daniella Wilson

Picture the Princess of Wales, and you’ll likely imagine her signature long, flowing hair. Since she first stepped onto the royal scene as Prince William’s girlfriend in 2004, Princess Catherine has always had beautiful, glossy hair – always long and perfectly styled, tumbling down her back. The future Queen’s hair came under undeserved scrutiny earlier this summer, when royal watchers declared her ultra-long locks ‘unprofessional’ when it looked longer than ever at a reception for Cancer Research in early June. © Getty ImagesPrincess Kate’s hair looked longer than ever in June HELLO! reader Carol commented: “That hair is just so unprofessional,” which we vehemently disagreed with in the office. Though Princess Kate does appear to have the longest hair of a British royal in living memory, there’s no rulebook that says members of the family have to have a certain length of hair to do their job. Queen Elizabeth’s opinion on Princess Catherine’s hair Though many of the royal ladies (Princess Anne, Duchess Sophie, Queen Camilla and Zara Tindall, for example) do all have shorter hair, …

Blanche: DOJ opinion on executive privilege is not ‘any novel legal concept’

Blanche: DOJ opinion on executive privilege is not ‘any novel legal concept’

Published by Sam Flores

Attorney General Todd Blanche on Sunday dismissed criticism over the Justice Department’s recent opinion on executive privilege over communications between the president and “private advisers” outside of government, saying that it is not “any novel legal concept.” During Blanche’s “Fox News Sunday” appearance, host Shannon Bream played a clip of Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) telling… Source link