UK Politics
— Polling only provides a snapshot of the current moment but modelling across decades can help us predict the next election result.
UK Politics
— Polling only provides a snapshot of the current moment but modelling across decades can help us predict the next election result.
Matt Hancock
— Matt Hancock isn’t the first politician to attempt redemption through memoir but the image that will stay with most readers of his diaries is unlikely to be that of a nation bravely facing a crisis.
Analysis
— Clowns and jesters have positively contributed to society for centuries. Calling politicians ‘clowns’ is a disservice to them.
Long-Read
— Two years into full Brexit there is a palpable sense of a broken country. Last week’s dishonesty about regulation, foreign policy, and trade, continues the pattern of lies that broke it.
UK Strikes
— Ambulance services are facing unfair criticism for a situation which is not of their making. The workforce is in crisis, with system-wide pressures seriously hampering their ability to do their jobs.
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.
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.
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.
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.
UK Politics
— With everyone from rail workers to civil servants going on strike over the winter, it’s hard to see this ending well. To say the least, Rishi Sunak’s government is in a very difficult position.
Scottish Independence
— The decision of the Supreme Court is a seismic and fundamental shift in the basis upon which Scotland is a part of the United Kingdom, a change which has been imposed on Scotland without consultation, consent, consultation or permission.
Long-Read
— Professor Chris Grey’s analysis on how the budget aftermath exposed the costs and the lack of public consensus for Brexit. Some of the revived debate repeats the past, but there is a new context. How Labour responds now is crucial.
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