OPINION
— With the Conservatives in government, the UK is very firmly on a trajectory to more cruelty, more demonisation of the poor, the weak, and the vulnerable.
OPINION
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OPINION
— China’s Zero COVID policy is being criticised as a means of legitimising the abandonment of public health in the West.
OPINION
— B. Jay Cooper, former deputy White House press secretary to Presidents Reagan and Bush, has decided to quit Twitter. This is why.
OPINION
— Party still comes before country and constituents and democracy to the Conservatives. The Tories would do anything now, including giving Boris Johnson another go at being PM, to avoid annihilation in a General Election.
OPINION
— It is safe to say now that the Conservative party has made a catastrophic mistake by choosing Liz Truss as its leader and as Prime Minister.
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— A rare occurrence in American jurisprudence took place last month that reflects both the hope and doom of small democratic law in America.
OPINION
— If you ever entertained any notion that the Republican Party will endure in a democracy, tell me what you’re smoking, please.
OPINION
— Liz Truss and her Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng are becoming so absurd about their economic plans for Britain as to be beyond satire.
OPINION
— It’s all going so terribly well, isn’t it? Liz Truss is living down to expectations that she would prove to be the next worst Prime Minister in living memory and is doing so in spectacular style.
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— Liz Truss finally made a public appearance after keeping quiet for a week while her government burned down the economy, trashed the pound, and threatened to tank pension funds.
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— If Liz Truss can do this much damage in 2 days, God knows what she can do in 2 years.
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— It’s not for the taxpayers to pick up the tab for getting the former Prime Minister off the hook. Here’s what Good Law Project are doing about the fact we all have, they think unlawfully, paid for Boris Johnson’s legal advice. And here’s why they think that legal advice is wrong.
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— Britain has become an insane, cruel and callous place which makes the poor pay so that the energy companies can rake in billions, a sclerotic polity which is well on the way to full-blown authoritarianism.
OPINION
— As millions worry about keeping food on the table or keeping their homes warm, and thousands of businesses are facing collapse, people are not just mourning the Queen, they are mourning the Britain that the Conservatives have destroyed.
OPINION
— I think the Tories are heading for a decade of strife and internecine warfare, worse than the period after Thatcher. And I think – although this is pretty speculative – that it could lead to a complete split between the two wings. Here is why.
OPINION
— The Conservatives promised that their Brexit would deliver sunlit uplands, what they are delivering is unlit slum lands.
