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A Turning Tide? Johnson’s Campaign to Turn Two Fingers Up at Business Continues
Mike Buckley reflects on the Prime Minister’s attempts to distract from the economic plague that the Government has inflicted on the nation

A US-China War Over Taiwan Appears Not Only Inevitable, But Imminent
CJ Werleman explores what the rapidly escalating tensions over Taiwan reveal about the nature of the world’s two superpowers

Three Key Reasons Why Boris Johnson Isn’t Serious About ‘Levelling Up’
Behind the gags, the Prime Minister’s plan for regional redistribution is woefully lacking, says Sam Bright

Mirror Ball Journalism and the Revolving Disco Dance Floor of British Politics
Mic Wright argues that the private cosiness between political reporters and politicians doesn’t serve the interests of the public

A Successful Climate Movement Won’t Be Radical Or Moderate – It Will be Both
We must not add the self-sabotage of ideological purism to the challenges of creating the mass movement required to tackle the climate emergency, says Rupert Read

Boris Johnson Betrays a Common Misunderstanding of Misogyny
Making hateful behaviour directed at women because of their sex a hate crime does not mean adding cat-calls to the statute books, says Sian Norris

Levelling Down – Boris Johnson’s Other Conference Speech
Byline Times is reliably informed that Boris Johnson has prepared two speeches for his appearance at the Conservative Party Conference tomorrow – Otto English has been leaked Version A

Deception Management: How Mendacity Devoured British Politics
Hadley Coull and Chris Ogden consider why policies and principles have been subsumed to the art of political deceit
UK’s Biggest Climate Change Challenge: Confronting the Gap Between Government Rhetoric and Reality
Thomas Perrett explores the ways in which the UK may be an embarrassing presence when it hosts next month’s COP26 climate change conference