Just when you thought the UK’s online censorship law couldn’t get any worse… A row of peers has gathered in Westminster to decide whether the Online Safety Act has been cruel enough to the internet yet. After some hours of evidence, the verdict came back: not nearly. The Communications and Digital Committee has been quizzing stakeholders about how the…
Burnham should abandon the Reset. Here’s what’s wrong with the EU Agri-food Reset. CATHERINE MCBRIDE Shortly after being elected, the Starmer Government proposed that the UK should dynamically align with the EU’s food and agricultural regulations. This wasn’t in their manifesto, but they decided to do it anyway, claiming it would boost UK exports in…
FRANK HAVILAND Axel Rudakubana is a name the British public should never have been forced to learn. He is a nobody, and a nobody he should have remained; albeit in a foreign land, where his particular brand of evil would have received considerably less airtime. Instead, thanks to the suicidal policies of successive British governments, the…
Jamaica’s Reparations Campaign is a Waste of a Good Government Jamaica has pulled off one of the developing world’s most impressive financial turnarounds. So why is its Government focusing on reparations claims instead of telling that success story to the world? asks Lipton Matthews. LIPTON MATTHEWS In September, a Jamaican delegation will travel to Britain…
Is this Labour’s maddest net zero project yet? Government explores plan to strip carbon dioxide from the atmosphere at eye-watering expense JONATHAN LEAKE It could be Ed Miliband’s oddest and costliest legacy. Just days before leaving his role as energy secretary, he signed off on a proposal to make Britain a “global leader” in greenhouse…
Can Reform withstand the Burnham bounce? PETE NORTH A couple of polls today point to a recovery for Labour. It just takes a better showman than Farage to rob Reform of its lead. But it is only temporary. Burnham’s comms game is soon going to wear thin, and his gimmicks can only do so much. The Burnham…
