Disabilities
— With Elon Musk’s plans for Twitter, disabled users will struggle more to access the platform and be cut off from opportunities to tell their stories and collaborate internationally.
Disabilities
— With Elon Musk’s plans for Twitter, disabled users will struggle more to access the platform and be cut off from opportunities to tell their stories and collaborate internationally.
World Cup Qatar 2022
— Soft power is a powerful foreign policy tool. Three countries, in particular, have made the most of it at this year’s World Cup in Qatar.
COMMENT
— Water companies dumping sewage poses a serious threat to a 300-year-old oyster family business and to marine life if they are allowed to continue.
Immigration
— Many asylum applications are rejected on grounds that dismiss the dire situations in applicants’ countries of origin.
Cost of Living Crisis
— Widening access to free school meals would be an investment in England’s children.
Long-Read
— With Labour looking like a government in waiting, the understandable caution of its Brexit policy faces calls to be bolder. Actually, it just needs to be more imaginative, Professor Chris Grey argues.
COVID-19
— Reports from China indicate BF.7 is quicker to transmit and has greater capacity to escape prior immunity than other omicron subvariants. But we shouldn’t be alarmed at this stage.
UK Politics
— Controversial new voter ID rules are due to affect local elections in May 2023 despite warnings from officials that there isn’t enough time.
COMMENT
— A £4.5 million Government contract has been handed to a company headed up by a major Conservative Party donor to dispose of unused PPE, Good Law Project can reveal.
UK Strikes
— Unions are calling on the government to negotiate on pay, here’s how it could mediate discussions between employers and unions.
Electric Vehicles
— Having once led Europe in zero-carbon cars, the UK has some catching up to do.
Long-Read
— Professor Chris Grey’s latest Brexit analysis on why despite last-ditch attempts by Brexiters to redefine ‘success’, the public view has settled that Brexit has failed. But for now, our politics is incapable of responding to the failure of Brexit.
OPINION
— As his “brand” starts to diminish, there are three choices left for former President Donald J. Trump.
Online Safety
— Frankie took her own life after months of being served up self-harm content. Her parents pleaded with the platform for information; for months all they got were automated responses.
UK Politics
— The plan to abolish the House of Lords has drawn the most attention but Labour is also proposing radical changes to how power is distributed.
UK Politics
— When civil servants and MPs can’t speak up against ministers, they can’t do their jobs properly.
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