COMMENT
— To all those sincere campaigners for diversity, is visual diversity enough?
COMMENT
— To all those sincere campaigners for diversity, is visual diversity enough?
COMMENT
— I had a dream last night where I was briefing a Prime Minister about practical, humane, ways to reduce channel crossings. You could tell it was a dream because they actually listened.
COMMENT
— Bruce Adamson, Scotland’s Children and Young People’s Commissioner, has today written to Ofgem challenging its decision to raise the energy price cap and expressing his deep concern about the dire consequences that soaring rates of fuel poverty will have on children.
COMMENT
— The mother of one of my Ukrainian friends leaves London next month. She’s going home, my friend says, her eyes lowered. For how long, it’s not clear.
COMMENT
— Say the words “new world”. What image comes to mind? The United States? Possibly Canada? Maybe Mexico or Chile? What about India?
Hostile Environment
— The Home Office is denying rights to thousands of EU citizens and hundreds of thousands of people who are unable to join their family members, due to the hostile environment towards immigration.
COMMENT
— Salman Rushdie features in almost every story about India, a country that he is fascinated with, that is in his bones. But is he the master or victim of our times?
COMMENT
— Had it been anyone but Rishi Sunak, would Liz Truss really be the frontrunner in the Conservative Leadership Contest to replace Boris Johnson?
Downing Street Parties
— For the law to have any meaning, it must apply equally to us all. The Metropolitan Police must explain their failure to provide any explanation of how they cleared the Prime Minister over the Partygate investigation.
Sri Lanka Protest
— Sri Lanka’s president Gotabaya Rajapaksa has fled the country after weeks of protests. Now Sri Lankans want action — and fast.
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.
Immigration
— A year on from the deadline to the EU Settlement Scheme, we are all now living under the Home Office’s hostile environment.
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.
COMMENT
— To defy his moment of humiliation, Eton-educated Boris Johnson used a surprising American slang in his resignation speech.
COMMENT
— Political gridlock across the US federal government has made the country’s supreme court uniquely powerful.
COMMENT
— It looks likely the Government will be forced to come clean over companies handed VIP Test and Trace contracts.
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