Sri Lanka Protest

Sri Lanka’s protesters are demanding change. Here’s why.

— Sri Lanka’s president Gotabaya Rajapaksa has fled the country after weeks of protests. Now Sri Lankans want action — and fast.

COMMENT

Boris boosterism and bluster won’t keep Brexit Britain’s reality hidden forever.

— 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

How the hostile environment is affecting EU citizens.

— 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 remade Britain’s image as a mussy-haired wannabe with a slippery sense of propriety.

— 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

‘Them’s the breaks’: Boris adopts an American accent.

— To defy his moment of humiliation, Eton-educated Boris Johnson used a surprising American slang in his resignation speech.

COMMENT

In Iran, one man exercises complete control for his lifetime. In the US, it’s now six people.

— Political gridlock across the US federal government has made the country’s supreme court uniquely powerful.

COMMENT

Government could be forced to come clean over VIP Test and Trace contracts.

— It looks likely the Government will be forced to come clean over companies handed VIP Test and Trace contracts.

COMMENT

The G7 has returned to being a gentlemen’s club.

— With Angela Merkel gone, the G7 has returned to being a male bastion.

Education

The Schools Bill: An attack on home-schooling that hurts children the most.

— Many are alarmed by the Government’s new Schools Bill which seems designed to force some children into mainstream education against their best interests.

COMMENT

A peaceful transfer of power in America? Yes, but...

— I don’t know about you but the Colombian election has been a rare bright spot in the news from the Americas.

COMMENT

Ever wondered how the monarchy survives in Britain?

— With the Platinum Jubilee celebrations currently happening, what makes the British monarchy go on in a world that has become flatter and more egalitarian? And how on earth does it even survive?

EU Citizens

Home Office: Loved ones are left in limbo for months on end.

— We were promised our lives wouldn’t change. Now our loved ones are left in limbo for months on end, we are left unable to care for our elderly parents, our families are being split apart, and parents are unable to even see their children.

COMMENT

All government wants is for asylum seekers to be out of sight out of mind.

— Rather than doing anything practical to tackle gangs, the government blames human rights lawyers – the very people who are making sure asylum seekers are correctly and lawfully processed.

COMMENT

Government has more interest in allowing vulnerable children to be targeted by traffickers than tackling traffickers.

— How many children refugees will join those already being incorrectly classed as adults by the Home Office’s social workers? How many risk being sent to Rwanda or stuck in camps?

COMMENT

Every ‘journalist’ pushing the Starmer Beergate story must know it to be false.

— What are the media and journalists pushing the Starmer Beergate story distracting their readers from just a few days before the local elections?

COMMENT

No, decolonising your bookshelf doesn’t mean getting rid of Jane Austen.

— It is a truth universally acknowledged that the right-wing press will inflame any debate on decolonisation, regardless of the facts.