[카테고리:] Politics
Who is Victoria Starmer, Keir Starmers Wife?
Victoria Starmer and Keir Starmer at the Labour Party’s Brighton Conference, September 2021 Victoria Starmer remains something of a mystery. Unlike Carrie Symonds, Victoria Starmer has shunned the limelight, deciding to stay quiet about her private life while her husband…
Hannah Arendt Warned Us About Politicians Like Johnson
“How vulnerable is the whole texture of facts in which we spend our daily life; it is always in danger of being perforated by single lies or torn to shreds by the organized lying of groups, nation, or classes…” —…
Im Sick of Boris Johnson
Prime Minister Boris Johnson attends NATO in Madrid. Picture by Andrew Parsons / No 10 Downing Street I’m sick. No, I don’t have the coronavirus or monkeypox. I have Boris Burnout Syndrome (BBS). Symptoms include a depressing loss of faith…
Should MPs Have Second Jobs?
Nadhim Zahawi leaves 10 Downing Street. Picture by Tim Hammond / No 10 Downing Street Once again, Britain finds itself in the middle of a row. The latest political divide was triggered by another Tory scandal involving the former MP…
The Next Face of the Conservative Party
Rishi Sunak inside HM Treasury / Flickr It was in 2016, when David Cameron returned from Brussels, that he realised his attempt to use the Brexit referendum to sort out his party’s wranglings over Europe had failed. Having lost Boris…
Boris Johnsons Quotes on Politics, Sex and Life
© Suzanne Plunkett 2017. ON POLITICS When: 2003 The quote: “My friends, as I have discovered myself, there are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters.” Context: After being sacked by Michael Howard as shadow arts minister,…
Goodbye Corbyn, Hello Blair
Three things are clear from Keir Starmer’s conference speech: Corbynism is dead and buried; Blairism is making a comeback; and Keir Starmer’s vision for Britain lies in work, care, equality and security. Labour has returned as a serious force for…
Why GB News Failed
New Politic; GB News In the right-wing mind, the idea that cultural Marxism has taken over British institutions has become a doctrine. British politics has become too woke, too politically correct and too liberal. The right have become persecuted through…
Do Social Media Platforms Have Too Much Power?
Illustration by Zeyd Anwar; Unsplash In the aftermath of the social media onslaught of Trump, “content moderation” emerges as Silicon Valley’s new buzz word. And yet, the discussion so far has gravitated among one of three lines: whether platforms were…
Our Nurses are at Breaking Point
For many people, the social restrictions experienced during lockdown will have long-lasting effects. These include stress, depression, insomnia, fear, anger, frustration, boredom and stigma associated with quarantine. But during the pandemic, NHS staff had to face all these things and deal with working…