SubscriptionsCategory: UK Politics
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‘Test and Trace’ Breaks Promise Over Private Consultants as Extra £170 Million Granted to Corporate Giants
Baroness Dido Harding’s testing and contract-tracing operation has increased its reliance on outsourcing – breaking its commitment to MPs, reports Sam Bright
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The Ghost of ‘Herd Immunity’ Still Haunts Boris Johnson’s ‘Roadmap’ Out of Lockdown
While other countries are focused on the vaccine, Nafeez Ahmed reveals how the UK’s Cabinet Office asked SAGE to model ‘herd immunity’ through a ‘resurgence’ of infection in young people
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Conservative Councillor Turned Anti-Lockdown Advocate at Centre of Nick Watt Abuse Incident
Sam Bright and Sian Norris explore the growing threat to journalists and press freedom from conspiracy theorists with large online followings
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Boris Johnson Seeks Euros Glory in Latest Ego Campaign
The Prime Minister is once again using politics to furnish his own vanity, says Gary Gowers
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The Brexit Project’s Appropriation of the ‘Left Behind’
Five years after the EU Referendum, Sam Bright considers how perceptions of Brexit-voting areas have been warped by radical right-wing forces
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Education Committee Consulted Experts who have Dismissed White Privilege and Condemned ‘Feminist Zealots’ for New Report
MPs’ report on the disadvantages faced by white working-class pupils received submissions from people who call discussions of privilege ‘woke dogma’ and believe diversity drives are ‘racist’
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Can Philanthropy Save Public Interest Journalism?
Rodney Benson assesses the pros and cons of the funding model of American non-profit news organisations and considers whether it could help stop the relentless redundancies happening in UK journalism
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Ending the Corruption of the Great British State
Anthony Barnett traces the cause of the Brexit vote, how it led to our elected dictatorship being replaced with even darker forces, and considers a possible path ahead
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Turning a Deadly Blind Eye: Government Forced to Court Again Over Its Arms Sales to Saudi Arabia
UK ministers continue to licence arms for sale to Saudi Arabia when there is a clear risk that they will be used to kill innocent Yemeni civilians, report Bonyan Jamal and Molly Mulready
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Only 12 Vulnerable Children Resettled Under Asylum Scheme in 11 Months
Only a dozen child refugees have been resettled in the UK while conflicts rage across the globe, reports Sam Bright
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The Pursuit of Truth – Or Not: Boris Johnson, COVID and the Media
Broadcast journalists’ refusal to call-out the lies of the Prime Minister, his Cabinet members and the Government as a whole during the Coronavirus pandemic reveals the extent of the crisis engulfing the very fabric of truth in our society, observes Dorothy Byrne
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Free Speech: A Beginner’s Guide for Oliver Dowden
The Culture Secretary says he won’t allow Stop Funding Hate to undermine freedom of expression but sadly he just does not understand the concept, says Brian Cathcart
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How Much Did We Pay For PPE? Data the Government Doesn’t Want to Reveal
John Lubbock inspects data that has been leaked and accidentally released about the amount the UK actually paid for PPE during the Coronavirus crisis
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Red Wall or Blue Wall?
If the Conservatives are now losing liberal moderate voters, the surprise is that it has taken this long, not that it is happening at all, says Mike Buckley
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Untold Stories: The Daniel Morgan Murder
Journalism is not about the fictions people want to hear, but the inconvenient facts that they may want to ignore or may be hard to tell
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The Weaponisation of the Metropolitan Bogeyman
The ‘urban metropolitan elite’ narrative suits a political agenda but it does not reflect the reality of the UK today, argues Maheen Behrana
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The Transparency Gap: Government Publishes £4.2 Billion in PPE Contracts a Year Late
The Prime Minister previously claimed that ‘all the details are on the record’, reports Sam Bright
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The Need for a ‘Moderate Flank’ in Climate Activism
Rupert Read and Joseph Eastoe consider the limits of Extinction Rebellion’s radical growth and outline why organisations with greater public appeal, capable of putting significant pressure on politicians, are now needed to capitalise on its success
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Peter Oborne’s Diary May 2021: Holding Sleazy Politics to Account, but ‘No Surrender’ from Jacob Rees-Mogg
Exclusive to print for a month, Peter Oborne shares his observations of the political scene, at home and abroad. For the latest diary subscribe to the June Digital Edition
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£60,000 Contract Between MP and Firm Begins Weeks After Constituency Meeting
A Conservative MP and her husband own a firm that has signed a deal with a company in her constituency
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Boris Johnson and the Rise of Make-Believe
It is no good offering people a ‘story to believe in’ if it ends in harm – but the Prime Minister does not know any other way, observes Jonathan Lis
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Europeans are Here to Stay in Brexit Britain
The impact of EU migration on the UK has barely begun, explains Jonathan Portes
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‘Wholesale Review’ of £14 Million Grenfell Bereaved and Survivor Budget Pledged
Concerns have been mounting about the local council’s use of recovery funds following the 2017 fire, reports Sam Bright
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Government’s False Housing Policy is Sent to Coventry
Julian Mercer investigates more flaws in the Government’s housing policy, which seeks to build new homes for 80,000 ‘ghosts’ and ignores the impact of Brexit
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Colston Reconfigured: A Fulcrum for Future Understanding
Hannah Charlton explores what the journey of the statue of a Bristol slavetrader is revealing about the wider historical moment the country finds itself in
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The Daniel Morgan Report: Press Criminality? Nothing to See Here…
Brian Cathcart explains why the Daniel Morgan Independent Panel report confirms law-breaking and wrongdoing by the press – and how, once again, this will be ignored by the mainstream media
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The Daniel Morgan Report: From ‘Institutional Racism’ to ‘Institutional Corruption’: No ‘Hierarchy of Sickness’ in Met Police Failures, says Morgan Family
Institutional corruption is wide-ranging, says Alastair Morgan, after the independent panel report into his brother’s 1987 murder is finally published
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The UK’s Misrule-Based International Disorder
The G7 summit further wrenched Britain away from our liberal democratic allies, says Mike Buckley
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UK Has Highest Health Worker COVID Deaths in Europe and Third Highest Worldwide
Stephen Colegrave investigates why Medscape indicates the UK has had so many more health worker deaths that elsewhere
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Unaccountable Chaos: Scathing Lords Report Criticises Government COVID Response
Downing Street dodged Parliament and sowed confusion, a new House of Lords review has concluded
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The Daniel Morgan Murder: The Silencing of David Cook
James Doleman interviews the man once described by the family of Daniel Morgan as the only Metropolitan Police detective they ever trusted
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When Truth Matters More: The Case for Scrutinising GB News
We cannot simply ignore the new network, contends Sam Bright
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Four Years After Grenfell: Hundreds of Millions Spent, Yet No Justice Has Been Seen
Kensington and Chelsea council has spent £500 million on Grenfell funding since the fire, yet mistrust abounds as the process of justice drags slowly on, writes former local MP Emma Dent Coad
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The Daniel Morgan Murder: Jacqui Hames ‘I Underestimated the Power of Corruption’
Former detective and BBC Crimewatch presenter Jacqui Hames explains how she became entangled in a story of press, police corruption and politics when her then-husband started investigating the Daniel Morgan murder
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‘What We’re Doing is Illegal’ – The Private Investigator, the Daily Express Editor and the Daniel Morgan Report
Gary Jones once worked for the News of the World and the Daily Mirror. Today he edits the Daily Express. Will he figure in the report of the Daniel Morgan Independent Panel, out next week? Brian Cathcart considers the evidence
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Boris Johnson Misled MPs Over Unusable PPE
The Government’s most senior Health official has contradicted the Prime Minister’s claims, reports Sian Norris
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The Social Conditions which Inspired ‘Ghost Town’ are Still With Us Today, Says The Specials’ Jerry Dammers
On the 40th anniversary of the hit song, Chris Sullivan finds its modern relevance terrifying
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Police Chiefs’ Phone Records Deleted after Contact with Priti Patel over Extinction Rebellion Murdoch Blockade
A phone update and an ‘IT glitch’ caused the records to be deleted, a court heard today
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Major UK COVID Test Provider Under Fire from US Regulator
A firm that has been contracted to supply more than £2.3 billion worth of tests to the UK has been accused of several violations in America by the FDA
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Home Office Criticised for ‘Disregarding Vulnerability of Migrant Domestic Abuse Survivors’
A change to the way in which migrant women who have survived domestic abuse enrol their biometric data risks causing anxiety and fear, as well as increasing the burden on charities, reports Sian Norris
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‘Independent’ Public Health England Data ‘Very Strongly Managed’ by Government, Documents Reveal
Ostensibly independent information on COVID-19 is being carefully controlled by the Department of Health and Social Care and Downing Street, internal emails show
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MPs Have All the Evidence They Need on Hancock’s Lies and Failures
We do not require more information from Dominic Cummings to ascertain the truth, argues Sam Bright
