Working from Home: Why anonymous Tory briefings against civil servants will backfire
‘Government sources’ are standing like Cnut against the tide of home working. They’ll be washed away.
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Calls to investigate senior Tory who coached corporate clients on handling MP scrutiny
James Gray MP accepted payments to train witnesses ahead of select committee appearances.
The leader of the relaunched Brexit Party claims a conspiracy is behind it losing its bank account
In a conference Richard Tice claimed without any evidence someone ‘must have had a word’.
Are the days of the right-wing’s culture war numbered?
‘76% of people ‘didn’t know’ what politicians meant when they talked about a ‘culture war’.
Why constitutional reforms ought to be the centrepiece of the next general election campaign
‘There is no charter of people’s rights and parliament is weak and unable to hold government to account.’
Tory climate minister accused of hypocrisy after travelling to 30 countries in 7 months without isolating
‘One rule for them, another for us’.
Backlash continues over Boris Johnson’s ‘unbelievably crass’ joke about Thatcher closing coal mines
‘These are shameful comments from Boris Johnson, and reveal the Conservative party’s utter disregard for the communities still scarred by Thatcher’s closure of the mines’
Government urged to cancel ‘discriminatory’ mass deportation flight to Jamaica that will ‘tear people away from their families’
Human rights group Liberty has described the deportation flights as ‘cruel’.
Institute of Economic Affairs accused of ‘new kind of climate denialism’ after ‘rubbishing net-zero targets’
The IEA has rejected climate change targets as ‘arbitrary’.
The 2011 riots ten years on: Four myths and the realities
‘It’s important to reflect on what happened and how it happened. This is especially so, given the myths that surrounded these events. These are the same myths that surround all waves of riots.’