Martin Barker obituary Other Lives: Socialist academic who challenged racism and led international studies of blockbuster films The Guardian - UK · Nov 28, 2022
Prince Andrew TV musical will see Harry Enfield as Tony Blair Emily Maitlis will be played by actress and comedian Emma Sidi, known for Starstruck and Stath Lets Flats Wales Online · Nov 24, 2022
Drag Race's Baga Chipz set to play Margaret Thatcher in Prince Andrew: The Musical Channel 4 has cast RuPaul’s Drag Race star Baga Chipz as the late former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in Prince Andrew: The Musical Irish Mirror · Nov 24, 2022
Professions, heal yourselves – only you can make the public sector better value for money Rishi Sunak should take on doctors, barristers, teachers and academics, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins The Guardian - UK · Nov 22, 2022
Rishi Sunak registered with private GP that sees urgent cases 'on the day' for £250 It emerged the Prime Minister - who last week refused to say if he had private healthcare - uses a west London surgery that charges £80 for a prescription. No10 declined to comment Daily Mirror · Nov 21, 2022
Thatcher and Lawson had a strategy – where is Hunt and Sunak’s? UK’s crisis has similarities to that of 1980s but our ‘two chancellors’ plan only to muddle through The Guardian - UK · Nov 20, 2022
Frontierland: Lost rides of now abandoned theme park loved by Manchester kids in its heyday Frontierland was a Wild West theme park that has been derelict for over 20 years Manchester Evening News · Nov 19, 2022
Scots have 'ethnic' problem with unemployment, says Thatcher event speaker A SPEAKER at a conference organised by Margaret Thatcher’s right-wing think tank has suggested Scotland’s rate of unemployment is an… The National (Scotland) · Nov 14, 2022
Christopher Ogden obituary Other lives: Senior journalist at Time magazine in London, Moscow and Washington DC, and author of several biographies The Guardian - UK · Nov 13, 2022
The British right’s hostility to climate action is deeply entrenched – and extremely dangerous With voters increasingly fearful about fires, floods and extreme temperatures, can the Tories find a way back towards reality, asks Guardian columnist John Harris The Guardian - UK · Nov 13, 2022
The remarkable Greater Manchester man who helped stop a nuclear stand-off with Russia His linguistic skills played a key role in the special relationship between Margaret Thatcher and Mikhail Gorbachev Manchester Evening News · Nov 13, 2022
Amid fiscal shock and awe, more austerity is the last thing we need A collapse in credibility under the former Tory PM is being followed by a return to ‘sado-monetarism’ under the new one The Guardian - UK · Nov 13, 2022
Jeremy Hunt warns he's Scrooge and will make 'horrible decisions' to save Christmas Chancellor Jeremy Hunt says he'll make some tough calls on tax and spending in a bid to get a hold on inflation to prevent recession which he blames on Russia Daily Mirror · Nov 12, 2022
Ambulance strike to be first in Scotland since Margaret Thatcher's Tory government The last industrial action that Scots ambulance workers took part happened between September 1989 and February 1990. Daily Record · Nov 12, 2022
The Independent UK · Nov 11, 2022 Boris Johnson worst PM in my 40 years, says ex-Foreign Office chief Johnson was ‘chaotic’, says former top civil servant who served under seven prime ministers
Daily Mirror · Nov 10, 2022 Ex-Foreign Office chief says Boris Johnson was the 'worst' PM he worked under Sir Simon McDonald whose explosive intervention helped bring down the former Prime Minister in the summer said Boris Johnson was 'charismatic' but 'chaotic'
The Guardian - UK · Nov 10, 2022 ‘They allowed us to be a guinea pig. And the guinea pig is dead’: the sorry saga of Barnet’s ‘easyCouncil’ A decade ago, the Tory-led London council went on a disastrous ideological outsourcing spree that it hoped could be a model for the rest of the country. Can the new Labour administration repair the damage?
The Independent UK · Nov 9, 2022 Why is everyone in The Crown so sexy? Is the Netflix hit’s relationship to controversy in direct proportion to the inappropriate attractiveness of its ensemble cast? Adam White investigates why a show about largely unsexy people is so ripe with sexy actors
The Guardian - UK · Nov 7, 2022 ‘You can blow cyborg Thatcher up with a rocket launcher’: the video games lampooning Britain’s cursed politics Combining satire with simulation and working-class viewpoints, a suite of games is currently exploring the causes and consequences of Britain’s political and economic crises.
The Independent UK · Nov 7, 2022 Jonathan Coe: ‘I would really rather not live in interesting times, thank you’ Britain’s foremost state-of-the-nation chronicler is back with another generation-spanning novel, ‘Bournville’. He talks to Nick Duerden about making a living as an author, why he doesn’t write from anger, and how the country ended up in chaos
The Guardian - UK · Nov 6, 2022 UK facing huge scale of unrest last seen in 1980s miners’ strike Nearly 1.7 million mostly public sector workers are being balloted on or have voted for stoppages
The Guardian - UK · Nov 6, 2022 This is no country for young people. The fate of so many of our children is sealed at birth Shocking new figures reveal the ugly truth that the circumstances of early years, from a baby’s weight to family ties, matter too much
Daily Mirror · Nov 5, 2022 Thousands demand general election in protest march amid the worsening cost-of-living crisis A coalition of trade unions and community organisations took part in the “Britain is Broken” protest in central London today
The Independent UK · Nov 5, 2022 Thousands join austerity demonstration and call for general election Members of the People’s Assembly, rail unions and Labour MPs were among those calling for a general election in central London on Saturday.
Evening Standard · Nov 4, 2022 TV’s lost its courage, says Spitting Image maestro after cancellation Satirical puppet show Spitting Image has been cancelled after two years on BritBox but John Lloyd, the man who originally produced the series back in the Eighties, is not surprised.