Politics

Almost half of UK political donations come from private wealthy ‘super-donors’: Maybe letting very wealthy people effectively buy elections isn’t exactly ideal for democracy.

2024-09-21: Why limit the political gifts ban to buying clothes for the PM?

2024-09-21: 'Outrage' erupts as Keir Starmer moves a painting to another room

Elon Musk Is a National Security Risk: It’d be hard to argue this wasn’t true even if Mr Musk wasn’t so…problematic.

The brutal truth behind Italy’s migrant reduction: beatings and rape by EU-funded forces in Tunisia: The unspeakable cruelty we’re seemingly okay with raining down on people who want or need to migrate knows no bounds.

2024-09-19: Now Hezbollah's walkie-talkies are exploding

Walkie-talkie blasts: attacks on Hezbollah kill 20: The earlier exploding pager attack has been followed up with a similar attack via walkie-talkies.

‘BlueAnon’ conspiracy theories flood social media after Trump rally shooting: The first Trump assassination attempt sparked a wave of conspiracy theories from both sides of the political spectrum.

2024-09-18: Remote cyber-attack on Hezbollah's pagers causes thousands of injuries and deaths

Hundreds of pagers exploded in Lebanon and Syria in deadly attack: Seemingly a coordinated attack on Hezbollah via explosive pagers.

2024-09-01: Another great free e-books offer from Verso, a publisher that continues to release at least one book …

2024-08-24: It’s quite something to have gotten to the point in Britain that a UN committee feels …

2024-08-23: US Democrats borrow a dril tweet - a good excuse to list some faves

2024-08-22: The IFS's interactive 'impact of tax and benefit changes' tool shows the cruel impact of the post-2010 tax and benefit changes

2024-08-14: Is there anything more ‘US politics in 2024’ than this? While the real Trump-Musk Space …

2024-08-13: The UK far right riots show the days of overt and violent racist behaviour in the UK are far from over

2024-08-10: The tech billionaires who at least used to be ashamed about their support for Trump

2024-08-09: Robert Jenrick, a Conservative MP who has aspirations to lead the party despite apparently being a …

2024-08-06: One of my favourite publishers in terms of their typical subject matter, Verso Books, is temporarily …

2024-08-04: TIL: Boris Johnson once disfigured a Long Covid report he was supposed to read by scrawling the word …

2024-08-01: Once again, managing a government budget is not like managing a household budget

2024-07-11: Britain now has MPs aged from 22 to 80

2024-07-07: The UK has a new Labour government

2024-07-04: The day has come - it's time to go vote in the UK general election

2024-07-03: A new Channel 4 documentary asks us 'Can AI steal your vote?'