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. Yet another “online harms” Bill Just a few weeks since the UK passed its new “Online Safety Act”, the Canucks are joining the party. …
Labour has slashed its original £28bn green borrowing plan by 80%, blaming Liz Truss (no, really), and unveiled a new tax raid on oil and gas giants to bankroll the Net Zero drive.
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In the latest Weekly Sceptic podcast the talking points are Liz Truss's PopCon event, the U.K.'s broken asylum system and the Premier League's Stadium Stasi spying on fans for wrongthink.
Nigel Farage will join the launch of Liz Truss's new 'Popular Conservatism' movement, advocating for hardline policies on immigration and tax cuts, marking the former Prime Minister's determined return to politics.
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Last year, the Foreign Office sanctioned pro-Putin blogger Graham Phillips, the first time it has sanctioned a UK citizen. Peter Hitchens says if we don't object, other critics of the Govt's foreign policy could be next.
At the conclusion of the Second World War, debates raged on how best to regulate the destructive power of the atom. Splitting it had been used most savagely against the populations of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, thereby ending, to date, the globe’s costliest war. Visions also abounded on the promise and glory of […]
In an op-ed last year, Rishi Sunak wrote, “I am a Thatcherite, I am running as a Thatcherite and I will govern as a Thatcherite.” So what's his latest proposal to tackle rising food prices? Socialist price caps!
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Economic Growth vs. A Liveable Planet: Which Side Are You On? by Ian SinclairMorning Star29 October 2022 “There is no final victory, as there is no final defeat. There is just the same battle to be fought, over and over again. So toughen up, bloody toughen up.” My main takeaway from Tony Benn’s wise words is […]
While the levels of schadenfreude will be going through the roof given the unfolding farce in British politics, the resignation of Liz Truss as UK Prime Minister was troubling in one vital respect. True, her juvenile salad understanding of economics, which involved spending billions on tax cuts and energy subsidies, was lamentable. To cope with […]
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No one took responsibility for the explosion over the weekend that ripped through a section of the Kerch Bridge that links Russia to Crimea and was built by Moscow after it annexed the peninsula back in 2014. But it was not just Kyiv’s gleeful celebrations that indicated the main suspect. Within hours, the Ukrainian authorities […]
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