US Democracy May Have 2 Years to Live, Depending on Upcoming Gerrymander Ruling
This is not a red alert. Democracy in the United States — tattered and shabby though it may be — could have less than two years to live. It’s not ten years or some indeterminate fuzzy slice of time. Two years, one final free midterm election in the middle, before the Supreme Court finishes the […]
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Trader Joe’s Workers Will Vote on Forming Company’s First Union This Month
Trader Joe’s workers in Massachusetts recently announced that they’ve gotten an official union election date — a vote that could produce the company’s first-ever union. The in-person election for the workers in Hadley, Massachusetts, is scheduled for July 27 and 28, Trader Joe’s United announced. This means that the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has […]
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Nature Isn’t a “Vault” Full of Material Value. It Is a Treasure to Be Valued.
On June 17, 2022, Creamer Media’s Mining Weekly published the article “Nature’s Vault offers investors a ‘green’ gold option” to little fanfare. Like so much of what passes for news from institutionalized sources reporting breathlessly about opportunities for wealth accumulation, it’s a story ostensibly about a “win-win” scenario for capital investment and environmentalists. The piece […]
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PM grilled by Bryant in liaison committee
Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister, has been interrogated by a liaison committee this afternoon. Chris Bryant, chair of the Standards committee, pushed Johnson hard on the fallout from Chris Pincher. Bryant went on to tell the PM “you’re not going to learn any lessons and you’re not going to change”.
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EU Backs Industry Push to Classify Gas and Nuclear as “Green”
Climate advocates responded to outrage to the European Parliament’s vote Wednesday to classify fossil gas and nuclear projects as “green,” an official designation that will allow them to access additional taxpayer subsidies and private capital despite their destructive environmental impacts. Members of the European Parliament voted 328 to 278 to kill a motion that would […]
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GOP Is Coordinating With Far Right Hungarian Government to Block Corporate Taxes
News that GOP members of Congress are coordinating with the far-right Hungarian government in an attempt to block a proposed global minimum tax on multinational companies is drawing outrage from watchdog groups and Democratic lawmakers, with one U.S. senator accusing Republicans of doing “anything it takes to help their dark money corporate backers dodge taxes.” […]
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Ministerial resignations—their material costs – Politics.co.uk
Ministers who resign or are fired by the government are entitled to an appeal. 3 months worthSalary With 15 ministerial resignations remaining as of 6 July at 3pm, the government is now ready for a huge financial bill alongside its flagging political capital. Ministers who resigned after 5 July 2022 Claimed salary (£) 3 months […]
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Moving East and Getting Older: What we’ve learnt from the 2021 Census
London’s population has shifted east over the last decade, with Tower Hamlets recording the highest population increase in the country, whilst the borough of Kensington and Chelsea has seen their population decrease by over 10%. This is one the key findings from the first batch Census data, which was published at the end last month. […]
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Javid lands further blow to PM in personal statement
In a personal statement to House of Commons after PMQs, former Health Secreatry Sajid Javid made an observation in response to his resignation on Tuesday evening. Javid told MPs that “the tightrope between loyalty and integrity has become impossible”. “At some point, we have to conclude that enough is enough, and I believe that point […]
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Starmer tells PM ‘we have had enough’
Prime Minister Boris Johnson was confronted by Keir Starmer, Labour leader, after the resignations on Tuesday of Sajid Javid and Rishi Sunak, senior secretaries of state. Starmer focused on the appointment of former minister Chris Pincher, grilling the PM, asking Johnson to avoid “bluster and half truths”, something of which Starmer said “we’ve all had […]
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