Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the world. 1. Michael Gove’s Definition of Extremism UK Michael Gove MP made the news this week when he formally announced the UK government’s official definition of …
A new Hope Not Hate report warns that Tory MPs like Jacob Rees-Mogg are part of a "Right-wing insurgency undermining minority rights" – showing what's so dangerous about Michael Gove's new definition of 'extremism'.
Counter-terror and extremism experts, including former Conservative home secretaries, are warning against exploiting extremism for political gain ahead of Michael Gove's controversial new anti-extremism plan.
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Professor Angus Dalgleish, a co-author of a scientific paper on the origins of COVID-19, emphasises the imperative for the Covid Inquiry to diligently pursue the truth regarding the virus's origin.
Michael Gove has told the Covid Inquiry he became convinced lockdown was needed to counter the "man-made" coronavirus due to material from "friends outside Government", adding to the picture of why the world locked down.
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators "targeted" Jewish families leaving a synagogue, following a gathering of hundreds of thousands for a 'peaceful' march on Armistice Day.
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Michael Gove has been railing against the "resentment industry" of diversity and equality oozing out of HR departments. There's just one problem, says Sam Ashworth-Hayes: the Tories created it.
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The intervention of the RSPB in the housebuilding debate is the latest in a familiar pattern of 'cute' English institutions making partisan interventions against what they perceive as harmful populism, says J Sorel.
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Michael Gove has broken ranks with the Cabinet, urging for a more 'flexible' stance on Net Zero measures amidst soaring living costs and Tory unrest following recent by-election results.
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KB Goldtooth In the spring and summer of this year, I started to visit and interview various figures (public and otherwise) who had led or helped to drive the UK’s pretty strident resistance to the new normal. I had a book in mind, or a very long article. But bits of it seem to keep …
