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Journalist, author, and academic.
It seems that a party that’s been in power far too long has grown not only decadent but also pretty much unhinged.
Is the United Kingdom now the world's most successful example of a multi-ethnic democracy, as Mr. Sunak has more than once claimed it to be? Or do xenophobic serpents still lurk beneath the surface of the apparently progressive paradise of British politics?
An incoming UK government will be faced with levels of tax burdens not seen since the immediate wake of the Second World War, with little capacity to reduce them.
The lies, hatred, and worst instincts of such cruel madmen and madwomen have crept up on us, and now seek to overwhelm us, even while we sleep.
As the clock ticks on towards the day of a general election, whenever that may be, the heat is certainly on for the Prime Minister, but the same can also be said of Sir Keir.
Last week, a puppet called Elmo – from the popular American children’s TV series Sesame Street – took to social media to ask an apparently innocent question of his followers: “How is everybody doing?”
Things were perhaps never going to work out well for an outspoken and overreaching politician named after a tragic alcoholic heroine from a brash American soap opera of the late nineteen-seventies.
Rishi Sunak spent much of the last few weeks trying to dodge questions on the subject – a controversy that has polarized opinion not only across the country but also in his own party – as he weighed up the options in his mind and on his spreadsheets.
In a mind-numbingly irresponsible political gamble, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak last month announced a reversal of the UK's key climate change pledges.
Mr. Starmer may be as dull as a damp weekend in Doncaster, but, faced with the prospect of political personalities displaying rather more obvious shows of panache, a bit of boring mightn’t seem such a very bad thing after all.