Analysis: A growing economy and falling energy bills, the stars could be aligning January 13, 2023 Britain might narrowly avoid a technical recession, energy prices could be falling , and mortgage borrowing costs might not be as crippling. Sascha O’Sullivan looks at the good news.
Analysis: NHS strikes are about morale, stupid January 12, 2023 As Britain braces for more strikes in the NHS later this month and ministers are locked in tense pay negotiations, 14 health unions have pulled out of independent pay review process.
PMQs: Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer play piggy in the middle with NHS strikes January 11, 2023 Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer point the finger at each other as ambulance staff go on strike today and NHS nurses plan more industrial actions for later this month. Comment & Features Editor Sascha O'Sullivan breaks down Prime Minister's Questions.
Explainer-in-brief: What’s happening in the Meghan & Harry free zone January 9, 2023 If you started tuning out of the news in mid-December last year, you would have left as Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s Netflix series dominated the headlines, strikes caused chaos before Christmas and the NHS struggled under the weight of winter pressures. Turning on the radio this morning, little had changed, with the stateside Royal [...]
Explainer-in-brief: How to solve a problem like the unions? December 15, 2022 Yesterday Keir Starmer branded the nurses strike “a badge of shame” on the Conservative government. The Labour leader held little back in Prime Minister’s Questions as the country faces industrial action today. But it was also a distraction technique for an opposition party gripped with indecision over the strikes. Rishi Sunak rightly called Starmer’s demands [...]
Explainer-in-brief: The travel industry ready for more rows December 12, 2022 This year has been marked by travel chaos. Earlier in the year, strikes, cancellations and staff shortages lead to mass queues at the airports over the summer. Heathrow, as a result, instigated a passenger cap to reduce the number of people flying in and out of the airport. It was lifted in November, but with [...]
Explainer-in-brief: Britain’s baby challenge December 9, 2022 The UK is seeing out the perils of an ageing society already. We have a social care system stripped down, which, in turn, is preventing the NHS from functioning as elderly patients stay in hospital beds because of lack of adequate care elsewhere. And Britain is only set to get older with the average age [...]
Explainer-in-brief: Keir Starmer’s private school problem December 6, 2022 Students at Eton let out a sigh of relief yesterday. They wouldn’t be forced to join the other 94 per cent of kids who don’t attend private school if Keir Starmer becomes Prime Minister. Well, as long as their parents can afford to cough up extra fees that is. Keir Starmer insisted he wasn’t at [...]
Explainer-in-brief: Housing is the new Europe in the Conservative Party November 24, 2022 It was ardent Brexiteers who rumbled up enough angst to secure a referendum. But will pro-housing Conservatives have enough heft to stare down the Tory big wigs rebelling against housebuilding targets and planning reforms? Priti Patel, the former Home Sec, Damien Green, former deputy PM to Theresa May and Iain Duncan Smith, the ex-Tory leader, are [...]
It doesn’t matter if Sunak has a private GP, it matters if he knows most people don’t November 23, 2022 Our leaders should be able to understand and fight for seminal issues even if they have not had first hand experience of what happens when the system fails.
