Long-Read
— Rishi Sunak’s pitch of economic competence brings the cost of Brexit into new focus. For all the claims of the usual suspects, voters won’t be willing to pay the price of this failed and unpopular project.
Articles related to the United Kingdom.
Long-Read
— Rishi Sunak’s pitch of economic competence brings the cost of Brexit into new focus. For all the claims of the usual suspects, voters won’t be willing to pay the price of this failed and unpopular project.
OPINION
— With the Conservatives in government, the UK is very firmly on a trajectory to more cruelty, more demonisation of the poor, the weak, and the vulnerable.
COMMENT
— Giving the green light to water firms to routinely discharge sewage for decades to come is not only dangerous, but unlawful.
COMMENT
— It’s not May, Johnson, Truss, or Sunak that is the problem, it’s the entire detestable lot of them.
COMMENT
— Most people who cross the English Channel leave their homes in search of a better life, freedom, respect, or a decent, assured income. But countries comply differently with their international obligations towards refugees.
Climate Protests
— Just Stop Oil joined the People’s Assembly coalition in a protest on Saturday to demand a general election and an immediate response to the climate and cost of living crisis.
UK Politics
— Suella Braverman’s contentious declaration that southern England is facing an “invasion” of illegal immigrants, one of the oldest othering tropes in the book, was rightly met with a barrage of criticism this week. Rashmee Roshan Lall explains why.
Long-Read
— The ignominious collapse of Liz Truss’s government may mark a turning point in the entire Brexit saga. But the corner has not been turned by the arrival of Rishi Sunak. Nor will it be until the poison of Brexit lies has been drained from the body politic.
UK Politics
— Rishi Sunak is the fifth prime minister since 2016 and the third since the last general election. The UK does not have a written constitution so it’s difficult to say definitively when a government does or doesn’t have legitimacy, an expert explains.
Scottish Independence
— Recent polling indicates that the EU question is central in the minds of Scottish independence voters.
COMMENT
— Lawyers have uncovered conduct by a 55 Tufton Street charity which appears to breach charity law. A cross-party group of MPs has written to ask the Charity Commission why it is allowing Tufton Street dark money to pretend to be for the public good – and claim top ups from the public purse.
Analysis
— It has been a short but very eventful journey to the top for a man who has only been in parliament since 2015.
What The Experts Say
— What health experts think about the current COVID situation, and why getting the winter booster jab and wearing face masks now is important.
Stats
— Rishi Sunak is the UK’s fifth Prime Minister since the Brexit vote of 2016, and the third of 2022, following Liz Truss’s exceptionally short time in Downing Street. But is he only the best of a bad bunch?
Climate Change
— Research shows that when dramatic climate change protests happen people want to shoot the messenger, but they do hear the message.
Analysis
— Liz Truss, the shortest-serving prime minister in British history, ran into trouble even before taking office.
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