Sri Lanka Protest
— Sri Lanka’s president Gotabaya Rajapaksa has fled the country after weeks of protests. Now Sri Lankans want action — and fast.
Sri Lanka Protest
— Sri Lanka’s president Gotabaya Rajapaksa has fled the country after weeks of protests. Now Sri Lankans want action — and fast.
Fact-Check
— Fact-check: The ministers’ revolt against Boris Johnson wasn’t anti-democratic – it’s representative democracy in action. As for his claim to have a mandate from the people, it is misguided.
The Uber Files
— Uber has managed to change some of its practices, but it is still butting heads with regulators and governments to push existing rules closer to its preferences, fighting regulations as its survival strategy.
Analysis
— The scandal that brought his downfall wasn’t Boris Johnson’s first. Witty and charming to some, but dishonest and untrustworthy to others, he leaves his country and party very divided, as well as the legacy of his scandals.
COMMENT
— Boris Johnson’s premiership epitomised a change in tone and apparent temperament for Britain. In the past five years, it went from respected former imperial power to unreliable protagonist with an outsize ego.
COVID-19
— The way societies are governed seems to have influenced how they’ve fared in terms of excess deaths during the pandemic. For pandemic preparedness, the public must be able to trust authorities and institutions.
Conservative Leadership Contest
— Conservative MPs vote in the first round and members in the second.
Refugees
— A heartening 70% of British voters want to allow Ukrainians into the UK but only 50% feel the same way about Afghans. And the difference is even starker among those who vote Conservative.
Immigration
— A year on from the deadline to the EU Settlement Scheme, we are all now living under the Home Office’s hostile environment.
Analysis
— Boris Johnson breaks from his party in a bitter resignation speech in which there is no sense of taking responsibility and no sense of apology.
Stats
— Boris Johnson has announced his departure from office following a record number of ministerial resignations.
COMMENT
— Boris Johnson’s legacy: There is a sense of a country that is packaging and re-packaging shop-worn goods with a sales pitch that runs to superlatives.
Analysis
— There was a sense of self-aggrandisement about the resignation letters sent by Sajid Javid and Rishi Sunak that led to Boris Johnson eventually resigning. Overall, there is so much material in all the letters sent to the PM that we could analyse them for years to come.
Long COVID
— A new study has analysed UK data from long-term health surveys and electronic health records to understand how common long COVID is, and who might be at higher risk.
COMMENT
— To defy his moment of humiliation, Eton-educated Boris Johnson used a surprising American slang in his resignation speech.
UK Politics
— Boris Johnson’s resignation speech in full and the experts’ opinions.
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