Long-Read
— Professor Chris Grey’s analysis on how the Brexiters’ budget, which they say is crucial to Brexit, exposes their total incompetence (not a cunning plan), so that the crisis is a verdict on Brexit itself.
Long-Read
— Professor Chris Grey’s analysis on how the Brexiters’ budget, which they say is crucial to Brexit, exposes their total incompetence (not a cunning plan), so that the crisis is a verdict on Brexit itself.
Analysis
— In her first party conference speech as prime minister, Liz Truss has emphasised that growth is the only solution.
Environment
— Environmental groups have criticised the government’s approach to nature – but what is this approach and why is it concerning?
COMMENT
— Former PM Gordon Brown’s budget analysis sums up Liz Truss’s government plans perfectly. Wouldn’t it be good to be governed by grown-ups again?
OPINION
— It’s all going so terribly well, isn’t it? Liz Truss is living down to expectations that she would prove to be the next worst Prime Minister in living memory and is doing so in spectacular style.
UK Politics
— The economic turmoil from Liz Truss’s growth plan is causing unease among Conservative MPs. But is removing her worth the risk?
UK Politics
— A quick look back at the history books might have deterred PM Liz Truss from her extreme actions.
OPINION
— Liz Truss finally made a public appearance after keeping quiet for a week while her government burned down the economy, trashed the pound, and threatened to tank pension funds.
OPINION
— If Liz Truss can do this much damage in 2 days, God knows what she can do in 2 years.
Long-Read
— 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.
UK Politics
— Liz Truss’s plan is not renationalisation in a conventional sense. It is the state being used to prop up the profits of very large companies.
OPINION
— 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
— 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.
Climate Change
— Liz Truss has appointed a loyal cabinet with varied environmental credentials. While the new government represent a threat for UK action on climate change, their ability to inflict damage to climate policy will be restricted.
UK Politics
— 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
— With the election of Liz Truss, the right-wing British nationalist extremists of the ERG are now in charge of the UK. The Tories have completed their transformation into Ukip.
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