Politics

2025-05-29

Housing ombudsman for England warns of ‘simmering anger’ over living conditions: There’s been a nearly 500% increase in complaints about substandard living conditions received by the housing ombudsman compared to around 5 years ago.

2025-05-27: The moral test of government is how it treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those …

2025-05-26

Unions hail UK’s rail renationalisation bills as a return to ‘public service’

Only a third of recommendations to tackle endemic racism in UK implemented

2025-05-25: Nigel Farage currently has 10 paying jobs

2025-05-23

White farmers: how a far-right idea was planted in Donald Trump’s mind : His current obsession is nothing new.

Borders of whiteness: Do refugees have a colour?: ‘Reports on the refugee crisis have also suggested discriminatory behaviour on the part of Europeans to refugees of black or brown skin colour.’

2025-05-23: There's one type of refugee Trump is willing to help - White Afrikaners

2025-05-22: Counter-protests to Saturday's Great British National Strike

2025-05-21: The Great British National Strike seems to have an insidious far-right agenda

2025-05-17: The UK's recent local election results are pretty devastating for anyone who opposes Reform

2025-05-17: This year is the 100 year anniversary of the birth of Margaret Thatcher, Britain’s …

2025-05-13

The Guardian view on Labour’s immigration plan: cohesion isn’t helped by talk of ‘strangers’

Starmer accused of echoing far-right with ‘island of strangers’ speech: A totally fair accusation.

2025-05-12

Two charts that explain why Reform isn’t being dented by its scandals: Correlations between Reform vote share and either 1) count of spoiled ballots or 2) how many people self-identify as English.

2025-05-11

How the US president and his clan ushered in a new golden age of corruption: ‘…his personal wealth has more than doubled to $5.1bn in the past year.’

Kashmir: how a mountain paradise became a nuclear tinderbox: Key points in the history of Kashmir from 1846 onwards.

2025-05-10

The Big Winner of Trump’s Much-Hyped Trade Deal Is … Not the U.S.: Did the UK finally manage to negotiate something worth having?

2025-05-09

‘Outdated and unjust’: can we reform global capitalism?: There is little hope if not.

The Guardian view on Labour and immigration debate: time to change the frame: ‘The way to win an argument with Reform is to bring economic reality and positive stories of migrant contribution back into the picture.’

2025-05-07: 📺 Watched Louis Theroux: The Settlers.

2025-05-06

This Is the Moment of Moral Reckoning in Gaza: How will the world handle the ever-increasing humanitarian catastrophe?

2025-05-05: It never ends - Trump continues to do satirists' jobs for them

2025-05-03

Farage claims Reform UK local election gains ‘beginning of the end’ for Tories: The election results were pretty horrific in many ways.

2025-04-29: 📚 Finished reading: Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson.