Tories and Labour

Call it a win-win. Thats if your smart speakers hadnt shunted you off to a station in Malawi. Times Radio was looking for a big name to kick off the first show of its first day broadcasting, and inte… Read More

Boris Johnson has announced £1bn funding for school building projects in England and a further £560m for repairs and upgrades.But the pledged cash isn’t nearly enough, according to head teachers, who point out that the National Audit Office has identified a backlog of £6.7bn repairs needed across the nation’s 21,000 schools.The…

The Week’s daily round-up highlights the five best opinion pieces from across the British and international media, with excerpts from each.1. Michael Chessum, national organiser for Another Europe and Labour activist, in The Independenton the need for Brexit scrutiny Brexit is a battle over the type of country we want to…

The pandemic is definitely revealing the deficiencies in Canadian society. Whether it be in the private, for-profit long-term care homes across the country, the meat-processing industry, or in the greenhouses and fields where migrant labourers toil, the lack of oversight, regulations, and, in some cases, sheer lack of humanity, are…

When Boris Johnson demolished the Red Wall at last year’s election, it was clear that the usual political rules had been upended.Six months after the Conservatives built a big majority from formerly safe Labour seats, a new analysis from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation reveals just how much has changed.“The Conservatives…

Businesses being asked to record the names and contact details of their customers to assist with coronavirus test-and-trace efforts are facing a “privacy minefield”, campaigners are warning. Boris Johnson has announced that the hospitality sector will be allowed to reopen from 4 July, in the next stage of easing lockdown restrictions in…

Donald Trump is facing ridicule and disbelief after telling a campaign rally that has instructed his administration to “slow the testing down” for the Covid-19 coronavirus.Amid growing outrage, the president’s advisers claimed his comments to supporters in the Oklahoma city of Tulsa on Saturday had been “tongue-in-cheek”. But addressing White House…

The Week’s daily round-up highlights the five best opinion pieces from across the British and international media, with excerpts from each.1. Eliot Wilson, former House of Commons clerk, in The Daily Telegraphon MPs playing with fire over bullying casesThe House of Commons has only just saved itself from reputational disaster“To allow…

Rebekah Vardy and Colleen Rooney are set to face off in the High Court in a libel battle triggered by a social media squabble.The pair fell out last October after Rooney tweeted a message accusing Vardy, wife of Leicester and England footballer Jamie, of leaking stories from her private Instagram account to…

Britains political landscape is unenviable. Boris Johnson has emerged from the pandemic as exactly the prime minister his track record warned he would be: one that finds time to reference Churchill b… Read More