COMMENT
— Giving the green light to water firms to routinely discharge sewage for decades to come is not only dangerous, but unlawful.
UK Politics
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.
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.
Analysis
— It has been a short but very eventful journey to the top for a man who has only been in parliament since 2015.
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?
Analysis
— Liz Truss, the shortest-serving prime minister in British history, ran into trouble even before taking office.
OPINION
— Party still comes before country and constituents and democracy to the Conservatives. The Tories would do anything now, including giving Boris Johnson another go at being PM, to avoid annihilation in a General Election.
UK Politics
— After years of testing the limits of British democracy, the government finally got a taste of its own medicine when Labour used a parliamentary mechanism to lay Tory divisions bare.
Stats
— Liz Truss now has the unwanted honour of being the shortest-serving post-war prime minister.
COMMENT
— Spewing hate about everyone, including tofu-eaters like me, is neither a strategy nor a solution to climate action activists’ disruptive tactics, Rashmee Roshan Lall writes.
UK Politics
— When government whips turned a vote on fracking into a vote of confidence in the government, confusion ensued. Eventually, Liz Truss had no choice but to resign.
COMMENT
— No matter whether a system is democratic or undemocratic, a bad leader’s period in office could leave millions of broken lives in its wake.
Long-Read
— Ironically, as well as being deeply depressing, the most hopeful thing about this government is how utterly hopeless at governing it is proving itself to be.
