Long-Read

Strange times

— Professor Chris Grey’s latest analysis: a big picture overview of how the Queen’s death coincides with the ever clearer failure of Brexit as a national strategy and the start of one of the most peculiar governments we have ever had.

Analysis

Survey shows Brexit vote has undermined support for the United Kingdom’s union

— Question marks hang over the future of the union. The Brexit policy the UK Government has implemented has instigated a diminution in public support for a union that it wishes to preserve.

UK Politics

Accountability and the prorogation of Parliament

— Evidence presented by Boris Johnson’s Government to the courts for the prorogation of Parliament may not have complied with the duty of candour, and may not have been the truth.

OPINION

Is it safe yet?

— Britain has become an insane, cruel and callous place which makes the poor pay so that the energy companies can rake in billions, a sclerotic polity which is well on the way to full-blown authoritarianism.

OPINION

Notes from Normal-island

— As millions worry about keeping food on the table or keeping their homes warm, and thousands of businesses are facing collapse, people are not just mourning the Queen, they are mourning the Britain that the Conservatives have destroyed.

UK Politics

PM Liz Truss: A laser-like focus on delivery is needed after the chaos of the Boris Johnson years

— Liz Truss must provide a clear plan and a fresh start. The new PM needs to commit to a laser-like focus on the delivery of public services. But the shadow of her predecessor looms large.

UK Politics

Liz Truss: Who is the UK’s new prime minister and why has she replaced Boris Johnson?

— Who is Liz Truss, the new leader of the Conservative party who inherits a country in crisis after Boris Johnson and how did she get to become the new PM?

OPINION

Liz Truss, the last PM of the “big tent” Tory party

— I think the Tories are heading for a decade of strife and internecine warfare, worse than the period after Thatcher. And I think – although this is pretty speculative – that it could lead to a complete split between the two wings. Here is why.

OPINION

Liz Truss’s Conservative chip pan fire

— The Conservatives promised that their Brexit would deliver sunlit uplands, what they are delivering is unlit slum lands.

Analysis

UK strikes: How industrial action at a major port could disrupt supplies of clothing, cars and canned food

— With a looming recession, the UK’s political and business leaders need to develop solutions that will support economic recovery and growth.

Long-Read

What the leadership contest tells us about Brexit

— Professor Chris Grey’s analysis on how, although scarcely mentioned, Brexit permeates the Tory leadership contest between Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss, and David Frost’s essay inadvertently revealed why whoever wins will fall prey to the impossibilities of post-Brexit politics.

OPINION

This is a cost of corporate greed crisis.

— What we are facing is not a cost of living crisis, it is a cost of corporate greed crisis. Ordinary households are suffering while a small minority become rich on the backs of their misery.

Brexit

Four ways Brexit and the loss of free movement have made life harder for mixed British-European families.

— Brexit – and the end of free movement between the UK and the EU – has had notable consequences for family life, particularly for mixed British-European families whether they are living in the UK or Europe.

Brexit

How might Labour’s Brexit policy be made to work?

— Professor Chris Grey’s analysis on how Keir Starmer's timid policy could become less constipated, the implications of his foolish stance on post-election cooperation and the best/worst scenarios that follow.

UK Politics

Boris Johnson says his time as UK PM was ‘mission largely accomplished’. How does that actually stack up?

— Boris Johnson is about to leave 10 Downing Street to be replaced by one of two colleagues. His history in the top job is a chequered one.

Fact-Check

If you voted Tory for any of these 16 reasons, you made a big mistake.

— If you ever voted Conservatives, or intend to at the next elections, see what they tell you they are going to do in power and look at what they actually did whilst in government. Why fact-checking is essential before voting.