SubscriptionsCategory: UK Politics
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War is Boring – But We Need to Scrutinise the Military More than Ever
Iain Overton and Murray Jones explore the repercussions of a lack of rigorous scrutiny of the UK’s past military actions and how reverence for soldiers is weaponised as the ultimate political tool
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Owner of Andrew Neil’s GB News in Awkward Conflict of Interest
While the new television channel has pitched itself as a rival to the media establishment, one of its co-founders maintains ties to one of Britain’s big broadcasters
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‘A Complete Tragedy’: Badger Cull Expansion Threatens Vaccination Efforts
Claire Hamlett speaks to exasperated vaccination volunteers after 64,000 more badgers are threatened with a cull
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The Paradox of Brexit and COVID-19: Closer to Europe
Jonathan Portes argues that the Government’s EU negotiations and Coronavirus measures are actually drawing the UK deeper into the European mainstream
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‘There is No Alternative to Herd Immunity’: How a Dangerous Fallacy Infected the World
Sam Bright reports on the spread of a dangerous concept that has gained a foothold in public health decisions across the globe
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Mainstreaming Fringe Science on COVID-19 Puts Lives At Risk
Epidemiologist Deepti Gurdasani and neuroscientist Hisham Ziauddeen warn against the false narrative of the ‘two views’ on how to tackle a second Coronavirus wave, which undermines the almost unanimous consensus that does exist on the most serious pandemic in living memory
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‘Perversion of Justice’: The Abandoned NHS Whistleblower
Stephen Colegrave looks into the case of NHS whistleblower Paul, who was let down by his hospital trust and worse still by the NHS regulators there to protect the public
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‘Cover the Streets of London with Blood’: Did British Intelligence Help Cover Up the Murder of PC Yvonne Fletcher?
Duncan Campbell and Richard Norton-Taylor report on a new legal case which seeks to uncover the truth behind the London Libyan Embassy shooting in 1984
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Government Snubs Extension of Free School Meals
As Coronavirus lockdown restrictions are reintroduced, the Government has revealed it will not provide school holiday assistance for children on free school meals
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Political Manipulation has Made ‘Patriotism’ a Dirty Word
The Labour Party is attempting to recapture patriotism from closed-border populists – a move that should be welcomed not condemned, argues Eleanor Longman-Rood
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Scamademics? Right-Wing Lobbying Groups Reviving ‘Herd Immunity’ in the UK
Nafeez Ahmed reveals how a high-profile letter to Boris Johnson was based on ‘fringe pseudoscience’ and co-drafted by a Government advisor who downplayed the COVID-19 death toll
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‘Like Fish Markets’: PPE Supplier Lifts the Lid on Government Procurement ‘Scramble’
A business owner asked to provide £22 million of PPE by the Government sheds light on the frantic, high-stakes process
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‘An Afterthought’: UK Facing Nurse Recruitment Crisis As Second Wave Looms
The Government needs to act rapidly to fill thousands of nursing vacancies in the NHS, a group of MPs has warned
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Johnson’s Suggestion that ‘Freedom-Loving’ Britain has a Death Wish May Be his Greatest Insight
With 60,000 people dead from COVID-19, a failing economy, a trashed international reputation, a ‘no deal’ Brexit looming and a second Coronavirus wave, Hardeep Matharu explores whether the Prime Minister is right in declaring that the British public’s own sense of exceptionalism has put the UK on a unique, sadopopulist path
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Tackling Islamophobia in ‘Terrorism’ Won’t happen by Sticking the Label On More White Perpetrators
Government policy around counter-terrorism and programmes such as Prevent, not just media coverage, must be examined to shift damaging narratives around Islam in Britain
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The COVID Chumocracy
The UK under Boris Johnson and Dominic Cummings is being governed by party stooges and corporate blobs lacking experience but offering loyalty, argues Sam Bright
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A Second Coronavirus Wave was Only ‘Inevitable’ Because Johnson Messed Up
With the Prime Minister admitting that new restrictions could last for six months, Mike Buckley explores why the UK is in such a bad position compared to other countries in Europe
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Government Spending on PPE Deals to Conservative Backers Rises to £364 Million
As the amount of taxpayers’ money the Government has awarded to Conservative donors and politicians in PPE procurement rises, health professionals continue to call for adequate protection as a second Coronavirus wave approaches
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Royal Rumble: Is Boris Johnson Risking Another Constitutional Conflict with the Queen?
By threatening to renege on his Brexit Withdrawal Agreement, the Prime Minister is putting the Queen in a difficult position over the Internal Market Bill
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Great Expectations: Farage’s Phoney Fishing for Support
Rev Joe Haward comes from a family with nearly three hundred years in the industry and they do not buy the Brexitoric around fishing
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Firm Owned By Conservative Donor Nets Additional £81.8 Million Government PPE Deals
The Government has awarded massive COVID-19 contracts to a firm owned by a Conservative backer without competition, reports Sam Bright
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The Long Game: Two Year, £800 Million Contract For COVID-19 Home Testing
Sam Bright reports on how the small print of one Government contract reveals the true length of time it expects to be battling COVID-19
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Amazon Web Services Wins COVID-19 Contact Tracing Deal Despite Data Sharing Concerns
Questions have been raised about whether Amazon could be required to share UK contact trace data with the US Government, reports Stephen Komarnyckyj
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Meet the Anti-Mask Student Conservatives
Joe Molander speaks to young Tories who refuse to follow the Government’s rules on masks
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Firm That Gave £400,000 to Conservatives Wins £93.8 Million Government PPE Deal
Another company with links to the Conservative Party has been awarded a massive PPE procurement contract, reports Sam Bright
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Boris Johnson’s Government is Silencing MPs, and the People We Represent
Geraint Davies MP explains why the Government’s decision to end online participation of MPs in Parliament is disenfranchising up to 15 million people and endangering democracy
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The Strange Relationship Between British and English Nationalism
Former Labour MP John Denham explains how the repressed impulses of English nationalism represent themselves in Boris, Borishness and Britishness
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Boris Johnson and the Politics of Perfidy
Alex Andreou looks at the treacherous debasement of British politics as the Government rushes headlong into a trade war with our biggest partner
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The Last Stand of One Nation Conservatism
Sam Bright contends that Johnson’s brand of radical Brexit fanaticism seeks to divide and conquer at the cost of national and even party unity
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Braverman’s Confidants: The Lawyers Spurring the Government to Break the Law
Byline Times reports on the legal minds helping the Vote Leave Government in its war against the judiciary
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Johnson & the Brexit Bill: The Nexus of Destruction and Ego
Jonathan Lis assesses the motives of the Government in treating the public, the UK’s democracy, its international partners – everyone outside of itself – with contempt
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The Brexit Bill is Nothing to do with Northern Ireland or Trade – It Is About Power
Mike Buckley analyses another concerning aspect of the Government’s Internal Market Bill: the scale of the powers it confers on ministers and what this will mean for UK democracy
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Government Awards £122 Million PPE Contract to One-Month-Old Firm
New details of the procurement scandal emerge, after Boris Johnson is asked about the questionable awarding of Government contracts at Prime Minister’s Questions
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It’s Time for Britain to Reassess its Capitulation on Tibet
China’s refusal to respect autonomy in Tibet and Hong Kong resembles an attempt to revive a colonial past – one which Britain has an obligation not to walk away from
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Boris Johnson Under Pressure to Explain Questionable PPE Procurement Deals
Rushanara Ali MP has sent a letter to the Prime Minister, asking him to explain questionable COVID-19 contracts, including two deals exposed by Byline Times
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The Global Religious Right and Its War on Relationship and Sex Education
How is a libertarian and ‘family values’ narrative being used to normalise and mainstream far-right attacks on women and minority communities?
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Boris Johnson Defended Nazi-Supporting Austrian Politician Against the EU
The Prime Minister is said to have been in two minds about remaining in the EU, but Iggy Ostantin reveals he supported far-right figures who opposed it
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Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Prisons a Place of ‘Staggering’ Government Failure
Another damning parliamentary report reveals the extent to which prisons in England and Wales are not delivering for society
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The Climate Emergency: Could Just 108 People Help Save the World?
Stephen Colegrave considers the importance and potential outcome of the Climate Assembly UK report published today
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Extinction Rebellion: Damaging Society or the Best Hope to Tackle Climate Change?
While the UN continues to highlight the urgent need to tackle climate change, the British Government continues to vilify activists argues Stuart Spray
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Johnson Threatens Good Friday Agreement and Sabotages US Trade Deal
Mike Buckley reports on how the Government’s reneging on the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement has already lined up its closest allies – against the UK
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It’s No Longer About Conservatism – It’s About Lawlessness and Power
BeLeave whistleblower Shahmir Sanni explains how the Vote Leave Government is now wedded to breaking the law in order to achieve its political goals
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Lost Cities: Notting Hill – From Rachman to the Westway
Chris Sullivan looks at the consequences for Notting Hill of the determination of successive Conservative Governments to deregulate rents and planning
