Tories and Labour

The Week’s daily round-up highlights the five best opinion pieces from across the British and international media, with excerpts from each.1. John Harris in The Guardianon exclusion and abandonment in Brexit and coronavirus Powerless, rudderless and adrift: Covid-19 has crystallised how England feels“Mix together condescension, vagueness and government by edict, and one…

Ejaz Choudry requested life support and was instead given a death sentence. He joins Rodney Levi, Chantel Moore, D'Andre Campbell, Regis Korchinski-Paquet and hundreds of other deceased victims in the archives of police brutality and neglect -- more proof we shouldn't have needed that police routinely inflict the violence they supposedly…

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The Week’s daily round-up highlights the five best opinion pieces from across the British and international media, with excerpts from each.“Republicans seem to be coming around. Vice President Mike Pence earlier eschewed masks but now says that wearing them ‘is just a good idea.’ Senator Marco Rubio urged, ‘Just wear…

The past few months have been a bit of a downer for Boris Johnson just one bad news story after another. So it was time for a rewrite. The equivalent of Dallas series nine when it turned out everythi… Read More

Depending on your political inclination, this month has either been a triumph for Labour's Keir Starmer, or a total disaster. Last week, the new Leader of the Opposition caused a stir when he fired Momentum darling Rebecca Long-Bailey from the shadow cabinet. Long-Bailey had shared an interview with the actor…

Boris Johnson sought to co-opt a hero of left-wing politics today as he presented his vision for post-coronavirus Britain.He “is far from the first UK prime minister to claim the mantle of Franklin D Roosevelt’s New Deal”, says the New Statesman’s George Eaton. But most of those who have invoked…

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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…