Tech
— Meta’s focus on virtual reality might free up space for smaller social media firms to compete.
Tech
— Meta’s focus on virtual reality might free up space for smaller social media firms to compete.
Political Cartoons
— Elon Musk fires Twitter employees worldwide. – Today’s political cartoon by FM Hansen
UK Politics
— Suella Braverman’s contentious declaration that southern England is facing an “invasion” of illegal immigrants, one of the oldest othering tropes in the book, was rightly met with a barrage of criticism this week. Rashmee Roshan Lall explains why.
Long-Read
— The ignominious collapse of Liz Truss’s government may mark a turning point in the entire Brexit saga. But the corner has not been turned by the arrival of Rishi Sunak. Nor will it be until the poison of Brexit lies has been drained from the body politic.
UK Politics
— Rishi Sunak is the fifth prime minister since 2016 and the third since the last general election. The UK does not have a written constitution so it’s difficult to say definitively when a government does or doesn’t have legitimacy, an expert explains.
Political Cartoons
— Today’s political cartoon by FM Hansen.
Scottish Independence
— Recent polling indicates that the EU question is central in the minds of Scottish independence voters.
COMMENT
— Lawyers have uncovered conduct by a 55 Tufton Street charity which appears to breach charity law. A cross-party group of MPs has written to ask the Charity Commission why it is allowing Tufton Street dark money to pretend to be for the public good – and claim top ups from the public purse.
Analysis
— It has been a short but very eventful journey to the top for a man who has only been in parliament since 2015.
What The Experts Say
— What health experts think about the current COVID situation, and why getting the winter booster jab and wearing face masks now is important.
Stats
— Rishi Sunak is the UK’s fifth Prime Minister since the Brexit vote of 2016, and the third of 2022, following Liz Truss’s exceptionally short time in Downing Street. But is he only the best of a bad bunch?
Climate Change
— Research shows that when dramatic climate change protests happen people want to shoot the messenger, but they do hear the message.
Analysis
— Liz Truss, the shortest-serving prime minister in British history, ran into trouble even before taking office.
OPINION
— Party still comes before country and constituents and democracy to the Conservatives. The Tories would do anything now, including giving Boris Johnson another go at being PM, to avoid annihilation in a General Election.
UK Politics
— After years of testing the limits of British democracy, the government finally got a taste of its own medicine when Labour used a parliamentary mechanism to lay Tory divisions bare.
Stats
— Liz Truss now has the unwanted honour of being the shortest-serving post-war prime minister.
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