Tories and Labour

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

The Week’s daily round-up highlights the five best opinion pieces from across the British and international media, with excerpts from each.1. Nesrine Malik in The Guardianon what comes after the protestsFor a few weeks, black lives mattered. Now what?“So black people have your solidarity, your concessions that things need to change, your…

Labour Together Election Review - The UK Labour Party has just published a review, with data and analysis, of their disastrous 2019 defeat.Some key themes from the (much longer) summary: - Deep seated long term issues retaining traditional voters, going back to Blair years - Corbyn's unexpectedly good results in…

Labour Together Election Review - The UK Labour Party has just published a review, with data and analysis, of their disastrous 2019 defeat.Some key themes from the (much longer) summary: - Deep seated long term issues retaining traditional voters, going back to Blair years - Corbyn's unexpectedly good results in…

A review of the Labour’s 2019 general election campaign has found that a “toxic culture” inside the party’s election-fighting machine contributed to its defeat.Negative perceptions about the leadership, concerns about the party’s incoherent Brexit stance and doubts about the manifesto culminated in Labour’s worst result since 1935.The 154-page report was produced…

The Week’s daily round-up highlights the five best opinion pieces from across the British and international media, with excerpts from each.1. Gaby Hinsliff in The Guardianon mocking the BLM movement as an electoral tacticThe Tories may not take the knee, but voters may not care“Dominic Cummings doesn’t have time to…

A discussion on policy this was not. What was clear in the first debate was that for any of the four candidates to shine, they will need to debate in English. Mon dieu. Anyone who tuned in to Wednesday’s Conservative Party leadership debate expecting to see a serious policy debate…