UK Politics
— A prime minister who has been an MP for nearly a decade now wants to challenge 30 years of ‘vested interests’.
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UK Politics
— A prime minister who has been an MP for nearly a decade now wants to challenge 30 years of ‘vested interests’.
Food
— Misinformation is a challenge, but the success of the UK’s sugar tax suggests the feasibility of a tax on food. If implemented effectively, a meat tax could tackle health and environmental issues.
Transport
— Rail has long been hailed as the cleanest means of public transport. HS2’s demise will undermine the UK’s ability to improve its rail infrastructure and potentially lead to greater inequality.
Climate Change
— Rishi Sunak is using the short-term costs of green transition to justify a weakening of the UK’s climate policy, appealing to concerns about these costs. This strategy could polarise climate politics, and risk turning climate into a hotly contested political issue.
15-Minute Cities
— At the Conservative Party Conference, Mark Harper voiced criticism against the concept of ‘15-minute cities’, hinting it is a local authority ploy to control citizens. Some conspiracy theories even link it to oppressive rules and ‘climate lockdowns’.
HS2
— Infrastructure development in Northern England has been increasingly muddled in recent years. Few will be convinced by Rishi Sunak’s new pledge to fix this.
Immigration
— The current government is the most aggressively anti-refugee administration in British history, with laws threatening to send asylum seekers to Rwanda and language used to discuss refugees linked to increasing unrest. Yet, Suella Braverman warns that millions more people will come to Britain, “uncontrolled and unmanageable”. A migration “hurricane” is
Racism
— Black and minority ethnic women are the most likely of all NHS staff groups to experience discrimination from patients or colleagues. Systemic discrimination is the single biggest impediment to their career progression.
UK Politics
— In a new podcast, former chancellor George Osborne and former shadow chancellor Ed Balls have revealed how their parties collaborated on devising some of the most damaging policies of the past 20 years.
Long-Read
— Brexit has failed to secure public support for its current form, with the latest opinion poll showing roughly half of the population would vote to rejoin the EU, and a clear majority thinks it was a mistake to leave the EU.
UK Politics
— The prime minister has acknowledged that a narrative of national decline is setting in – but he has been unable to disentangle himself from it.
UK Politics
— The Levelling up Department’s own guidance contradicts comments by Transport Secretary Mark Harper at the Conservative Conference.
Tax Evasion
— Critics say HMRC is doing too little to punish rich tax cheats at a time when millions of Britons are struggling to make ends meet.
Immigration
— Suella Braverman has criticised the Refugee Convention, arguing that it is not “fit for our modern age” and should be renegotiated, even though it is thanks to the Convention that people are able to access their human rights and rebuild their lives in safety and dignity.
COMMENT
— 50 years after Peter Adler’s “Multicultural man”, Rishi Sunak’s diverse identity challenges stereotypes and raises questions on multiculturalism.
COMMENT
— The Sikh Council UK seems to be trying to stir suspicions against India. Were they to succeed, it would be profoundly damaging in all sorts of ways.
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