Tashkent, Uzbekistan In a visit that has attracted significant attention from international observers and diplomats alike, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz arrived in Tashkent this week to meet with Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev. The high-profile trip marks a crucial moment in the ongoing transformation of Uzbekistan, a country which is now on the cusp of a […]
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Why Rishi Sunak chose the occasion of today’s PMQs to take a petty swipe at the leader of a friendly nation ultimately confirmed Sir Keir Starmer’s withering observation that the prime minister does indeed have the “reverse Midas touch”. Even before PMQs, Sunak’s “reverse Midas touch” was being revealed in committee hearings which heard first […]
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Sir Patrick Vallance has breathed new life into Rishi Sunak’s image as Dr Death at the Covid Inquiry after evidence revealed the prime minister said the government should “just let people die” during the pandemic. Vallance – the government’s chief scientific advisor (CSA) when Covid hit – also contradicted Sunak’s written evidence to the inquiry […]
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King Charles, flanked by the equally ermined and bejewelled Queen Camilla delivered the first King’s Speech in some 70 years, laying out “his” government’s legislative agenda before the public finally get their say. It was also Rishi Sunak’s first as prime minister. And given the polls, it’s probably his last too. Sunak said the 21 […]
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Hallowe’en is upon us and trickster prime minister Rishi Sunak is treating the country by ditching his ‘InAction Man’ costume and donning Dr Death to battle the existential threat posed by AI. Hard to believe, but it could be worse. The PM might have changed into an outfit based on the increasingly prophetic anagram of […]
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It’s long established that the UK is being ruled by a cowboy government so it will no surprise to learn their latest plan to solve Britain’s prisons crisis is to copy Texas. Tories toward the more extreme right of the party will be disappointed to learn that doesn’t mean reintroducing the death penalty. Sure, it […]
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If the latest poll is to be believed, almost 90% of voters will have heard comments by Michael Gove comments about appointing commissioners to run bankrupted Birmingham City Council and wished it was as easy to replace the government. Birmingham city council – the biggest local authority in Europe with 101 councillors – effectively declared […]
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It’s 165 years since the Great Stink and this summer has no shortage of personalities and events to support Karl Marx’s observation that “history repeats itself, the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.” It always reeked but 18th century London really stank. Its rank air wafted the pungent scent of human waste and […]
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Sir Keir Starmer is calling on the prime minister to “get a grip” again – this time over the Nadine Dorries affair with the Conservative MP still drawing her salary more than two months after announcing she was quitting “with immediate effect”. Nadine Dorries has an extraordinary charge sheet which includes not speaking in the […]
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Oh the irony of the UK prime minister’s house being scaled by Greenpeace activists on the same day Rishi Sunak’s government launched the National Risk Registry. It’s broad and diverse detailing what the government believes are the most serious risks facing the UK including threats to lives, health, society, critical infrastructure, economy and sovereignty. Among the 89 […]
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