David Cameron has culled top ministers William Hague, Owen Paterson, Dominic Grieve and David Willetts.
The Tories are threatening to bring in new laws to try and stop public sector workers going on strike.
With new security at airports and the scare over people who train to fight in Syria the Tories are ramping up fear of Muslim terrorists.
The rows in the Labour Party keep coming. The latest criticism came from Labour’s policy chief Jon Cruddas this week.
With Israel lashing out at the Palestinians and the prospect of more lethal air strikes over Gaza, the Middle East is again engulfed in conflict.
The Tories like nothing more than an opportunity to drive down living standards for working class people. Some 800,000 public sector jobs have been slashed since they took office.
It wasn’t only David Cameron and George Osborne who went to patronise voters in the north of England this week. They also dusted off Margaret Thatcher’s old “minister for Merseyside” Michael Heseltine for the trip.
One of the biggest surprises of the crisis in Iraq has been Western warmongers going cap in hand to Iran.
Right wingers used the latest British Social Attitudes survey to claim there is a widespread panic about immigration.
The moral panic the Tories and their friends in the press are whipping up over the issue of Muslims and education is about racism. There was no “Trojan horse” plot of Islamic fundamentalists to take over Birmingham schools.
The Newark by-election last week didn’t tell us much, but it told us something. The Tories saw their majority in the seat cut from 16,800 to just 7,000.
