Starmer comparison does a disservice to speed awareness trainers Brief letters: Comedy career | Decoding youth speak | Chris Skidmore atoning | Boris Johnson’s memoir The Guardian - UK · Jun 25, 2024
London among best in UK for cycling infrastructure 'but still lagging behind European cities' London has some of the best cycling infrastructure in the UK but lags behind European cities including The Hague and Paris, a global survey revealed today. Evening Standard · Jun 25, 2024
John Oliver on Tories: their ‘unremitting cruelty has stained the last decade and a half of British life’ Last Week Tonight host looks into surprise UK general election and last 14 years of Conservative rule in Britain. The Guardian - US · Jun 24, 2024
Nigel Farage under fire for ‘cuddling up to the Kremlin’ as IFS accuses Reform of poisoning election debate Former Ukip leader defended his Ukraine war comments and hit out at Boris Johnson as he made another incendiary claim – that there had been an ‘invasion of people arriving on small boats’ The Independent UK · Jun 24, 2024
Campaign catchup: Farage edgelording, Starmer misremembering, and who’s behind Binface? In today’s newsletter: The Reform leader keeps wheeling out his Ukraine-sceptic, Russia-curious foreign affairs takes – but why? The Guardian - UK · Jun 24, 2024
Third of 2019 Tory voting Londoners more likely to back party again if Boris Johnson campaigns Almost two in 10 Londoners ‘more likely to vote for the Tories if Boris Johnson involved’, poll reveals Evening Standard · Jun 24, 2024
Nigel Farage 'we provoked this war' stance on Ukraine shot down by ex-head of British Army Lord Dannatt Rishi Sunak also accused the Reform UK leader of ‘playing into Putin’s hands’ Evening Standard · Jun 24, 2024
Nigel Farage attacks Mail newspapers over ‘Putin ally’ reports Reform UK leader accuses group of trying to stop his party breaking through into parliament The Guardian - UK · Jun 24, 2024
UK general elections: Which are the main parties, what are their key plans? Political parties are vying for votes, with promises covering taxes, immigration and even re-joining the EU. Al Jazeera · Jun 24, 2024
‘I feel sorry for British voters’: our panel on how the UK election is seen around Europe Britain may be about to buck a European trend and elect a progressive government – but correspondents find Brexit amnesia bemusing and Nigel Farage’s return surreal The Guardian - UK · Jun 24, 2024
Scottish Tories receive almost £100k from billionaire family tax haven company THE Scottish Conservatives have been given £96,000 by members of an influential billionaire family behind a company ultimately owned in an offshore… The National (Scotland) · Jun 23, 2024
Ex-Tory MP Rory Stewart: ‘I guess my hand will float over Labour, but will probably come down on Lib Dems or the Greens’ The former cabinet minister on why politics made him deeply unhappy, the truth about Old Etonians, and who he’ll be voting for The Guardian - UK · Jun 23, 2024
Election diary: so, how do the Tories match up with the Three Lions? If Tim Farron was right with assessment of laboured England in the Euros, what about Team Sunak? The Guardian - UK · Jun 23, 2024
Sleazy, inept and unbelievable – this sorry Sunak campaign sums up the Tory years The seedy betting scandal is the latest self-inflicted blow to the Conservatives’ election effort The Guardian - UK · Jun 23, 2024
The Guardian - UK · Jun 23, 2024 An amnesty for Covid lockdown breakers? Robert Buckland plays the rest of us for fools The pandemic appears to be the subject of amnesia in this election campaign, with the worst suffering put tactfully aside
The National (Scotland) · Jun 23, 2024 Mike Small: Why vote when change is not an option at this election? WATCHING the election coverage is like watching a Mirror World where whole chunks of reality are missing.
The Guardian - UK · Jun 22, 2024 The Observer view on Labour’s economic strategy: EU is the key to growth With polling revealing 56% think Brexit has had a bad effect on the economy, Keir Starmer has wriggle room for renegotiation
The Guardian - UK · Jun 22, 2024 ‘For 14 years it’s been despicable. Enough’s enough’: in the ‘red wall’, Tory support is crumbling Boris Johnson swept to power in 2019 by winning a swathe of northern English seats – but voters in Penistone, South Yorkshire, are moving back to Labour
The Independent UK · Jun 22, 2024 Labour to target embattled Sunak over ‘dirty dozen’ Tory candidates Labour are seeking to maximise Rishi Sunak’s discomfort over allegations about candidates with a social media campaign
The Independent UK · Jun 22, 2024 How Sir Keir Starmer set a trap for Boris Johnson over Partygate scandal The Labour leader said he knew Mr Johnson’s instinct under pressure would be to lie about Downing Street parties in the Commons
The Guardian - UK · Jun 21, 2024 James Forsyth: the key aide sharing the burden of Sunak’s likely demise Former Spectator political editor is old school friend who became PM’s best man and closest political confidant
Evening Standard · Jun 21, 2024 OPINION - Tom Newton Dunn: His first decisions as Prime Minister paved the way for Rishi Sunak's campaign from hell The first time I heard Rishi Sunak’s name was from William Hague, in Pushkar’s Indian restaurant in Birmingham.
The Guardian - US · Jun 21, 2024 US and UK journalism are different. But they’re going to get a lot more similar Although the Washington Post uproar has highlighted cultural differences, we’re probably heading to the same place
The Independent UK · Jun 21, 2024 Are pushy parents monsters or deliverers of potential? Tennis star Emma Raducanu insists she’s lucky to have pushy parents despite years of resentment – and the returns are self-evident. Charlotte Cripps asks why one-track-minded parents are so vilified
The Independent UK · Jun 20, 2024 Jeremy Corbyn would have been better PM than Boris Johnson, says Keir Starmer Sir Keir was grilled on BBC Question Time over whether he believed Corbyn would have made a ‘great’ prime minister