Kemi Badenoch boasts she can kick out staff in less than ten minutes
The minister is taking a ruthless approach to her departmental merger.
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Rishi Sunak is going to have a Donald Trump problem
A clash between the US and UK elections is a political nightmare.
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The government must move more quickly on AI regulation
We wouldn’t design new cars without road safety laws, so should we expect less for artificial intelligence?
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Are social conservatives the future of British politics?
The Conservative Party is moving to the right on social issues, as is Labour.
From an African perspective, Grant Shapps’s energy policy makes no sense
The UK once led the world in climate action, but now it is following others – and reluctantly at that.
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Brexit is to blame for Dover delays
Why won’t the Tories and Labour admit that it has become harder to travel to Europe?
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Will the government have another “green day” in court?
Rishi Sunak’s latest net-zero proposals mean the UK would still exceed its carbon budget by 2037.
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The government’s climate plans are a recipe for disaster
What was touted as a “Green Day” instead revealed a refusal to acknowledge painful realities.
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The strangeness of the right’s war on “green day”
Culture warriors deploy the word “freedom” to keep us chained to a regressive, repressive status quo of fossil fuels.
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Robert Jenrick and the return of prison hulks
The immigration minister is reopening a dark chapter in British history.
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Boris Johnson the clown’s first encore
Before the parliamentary Privileges Committee, he hunched his shoulders like an actor playing Churchill. But the music had stopped. The…
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With No 10 now in calmer hands, it will no longer be the focus of national contempt
It is time for the critical domestic issues plaguing the UK to be addressed, such as poor housing stock and…
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Concern about climate change stays strong through cost-of-living crisis
Climate action remains a popular policy among the UK population.
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Going native
How Matthew Goodwin became part of the right-populist movement he once sought to explain.
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“It’s not only bees that will suffer”: why lifting the neonicotinoid ban is bad for business
Anabel Kindersley, owner of Neal’s Yard Remedies, warns the authorisation of a banned pesticide will damage Britain's reputation.
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Keir Starmer needs to privatise the railways
Nationalisation is popular, but the government basically runs the trains already and they are expensive and unreliable.
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Why Rishi Sunak is taxed less than you are
The Prime Minister’s tax return is a reminder of how little the UK taxes wealth.
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Boris Johnson can roar, but Rishi Sunak has no reason to fear him
The former PM’s unconvincing performance before the Privileges Committee shows he has lost his old magic.
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Boris Johnson pleads idiocy
The former prime minister didn’t impress anybody at today’s Privileges Committee hearing.
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Inflation is running rings around Jeremy Hunt
The Chancellor is caught between a banking crisis and a cost-of-living crisis.
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