Tories and Labour

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…

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…