The UK’s new international development strategy lacks substance and gives little hope
We’ve heard it before: good things happen to those who wait. With the publication of their long-awaited international strategy for development, the UK government seems to have proved that this saying is true. Despite the long wait, the paper presented to media this week has as much substance and substance as a soap bubble. We […]
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Raab claims the PM has not broken the ministerial code as rule breaking was ‘inadvertent’
Following comments in his annual report by the prime minister’s ethic advisor, Lord Geidt, that it was a ‘legitimate question’ to ask whether the prime minister has broken the ministerial code, the deputy prime minister has this morning made a further staunch defence of his boss. Speaking on the BBC Radio 4 ‘Today’ programme, Dominic […]
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3 Laws That Biden’s Voter Registration Order Could Break 3 Laws That Biden’s Voter Registration Order Could Break
President Joe Biden’s executive order spurring an “all of government” approach to registering voters could raise questions about whether the effort squares with a law prohibiting political activity on federal property. Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-N.Y.), co-chair of The House Election Integrity Caucus, stated that Congress will investigate such questions. “We’re looking at potential Hatch Act […]
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If government was making covid rules without any intention of sticking to them, is it any wonder they were unworkable for ordinary people?
One charitable interpretation of partygate would be that it was discovered by Downing Street, that its covid rules were not workable. The alternative is that those making the rules never had any intention of following them, and hence never experienced the confusion and contradictions caused by shouting ‘Hands! Face! Space!’, while simultaneously refusing to share […]
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Georgia GOP Candidate Got 3 Percent of Vote But Still Won’t Concede After a Week
It’s been a week since incumbent Gov. Brian Kemp won the Republican gubernatorial primary in Georgia with a commanding 74 percent of the vote — but Donald Trump loyalist Kandiss Taylor, who finished in third place, still hasn’t formally conceded. Taylor, a far right Christian nationalistWho ran? on a conspiracy theory-ridden platform challenging the so-called […]
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Pro Athletes Can Amplify Social Justice Movements — If They Follow Through
Journalists are responsible for highlighting biases and conflicts that might affect their objectivity. It is there. The Washington Post whenever there’s a story about Jeff Bezos; somewhere in the body of the piece there is a parenthetical (“he’s my boss, owns this paper”) to inoculate the writer against accusations that they’re trying to get away […]
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Biden Sparks Anger by Describing McConnell and Cornyn as “Rational” on Guns
U.S. President Joe BidenMonday was a day of anger and frustration following a Texas election. mass shooting with remarks about gun safety reform that included describing two GOP congressional leaders as “rational.” The president said on the White House lawn that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is “a rational Republican,” and he thinks Sen. […]
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Republicans Are Channeling Tax Dollars to Right-Wing “Classical Education”
When Flagler College, a private liberal-arts school in St. Augustine (Florida), hosted a faculty senate meeting last fall, they discovered that the college administration had teamed up with their local legislator to create a new law. academic center The Flagler College Institute for Classical Education is located on campus. To administrators, it was an exciting […]
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Biden Administration Implements a Racial Spoils System
The Biden administration is doubling down on the color-conscious policies that were the hallmark of its first year in office through a series of “action plans,” which it released through every executive bureaucracy last month. In an attempt to avoid legal reversals this time, the administration is hiding its racial spoils under bureaucratic euphemisms in […]
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Right-Wing Supreme Court Tacitly Approved the Execution of Innocent People
The Supreme Court’s right-wingers decided 6-3 this month in a shocking opinion that was divided along ideological lines that people who receive ineffective counsel are not allowed to present new evidence in federal court to prove their innocence. The decision was made in Shinn v. Ramirez and Jones — which flies in the face of […]
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