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Omicron is Spreading. Heres How You Can Help the NHS.
Mark Konig / Unsplash Under the rise of Omicron, everything is accelerated. The new variant of COVID-19 is spreading faster than Delta. Health workers are under greater pressure to administer booster jabs to all adults who want one by the…
Keir Starmers Voting Record, Summarised
Credits: Jessica Taylor / UK Parliament At the click of a button, we can gain access to a politician’s voting record. And rightly so. Parliament is a stuffy old place. It’s difficult to discern. It has practices that are rooted…
Exclusive Government Contract Awarded to Conservative Party Donor
Picture by Pippa Fowles / No 10 Downing Street The Government has awarded a service contract to a Conservative Party donor, New Politic can reveal. Released information shows that a contract has been awarded to a company called Agnicare UK…
Its Keir Starmers Time to Lead
The ongoing pandemic and widespread horror at events in Afghanistan have combined to make pre-summer political concerns seem even more distant than normal at this time of year. Back in July the Government was on the ropes, criticised for everything…
How Britain Became a Playground for Etonian Rivalry
Left: David Cameron rehearsing his speech at Conservative Party Conference 2012. Right: Boris Johnson preparing his speech backstage at Conservative Party Conference 2012. Boris Johnson is clinging to his premiership like a fly clings to a turd, but not for…
Only Conservative MPs Can End This
Jessica Taylor / Parliament “[Boris Johnson] should have resigned a long, long time ago,” Tan Dhesi recently told me, Labour’s shadow minister for railways. “The Partygate scandal is just the latest in a litany of constant misdemeanours and outright abuse…
170,000 Deaths and Counting
150,000 hearts stretch 500m along the Thames opposite Parliament. Each heart, drawn by volunteers, represents someone loved, who lost their life to Covid / John Cameron Britain’s fight against COVID-19 has, amongst other things, been a pandemic of firsts. In…
Expect Another Wave
Illustration by Zeyd Anwar; New Politic The UK has been through two large waves of COVID-19 and is currently in the middle of a third. Yet despite cases being high, both scientists and politicians are cautiously optimistic that the worst of the pandemic is…
Why Boris Johnson Loves Chaos
Why is Boris Johnson the way that he is? What exactly makes him tick? What lies beneath his carefully curated image of a bumbling buffoon? These questions have been subject to dozens of articles, biographies and programmes. But few have…
The Two Wings Over Scotland
Credits: First Minister of Scotland / Flickr The following is an extract from Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot, a book which examines the consequences of Scottish independence. The book can be bought here. Leadership in politics is more important than…