Mubin Haq is the Chief Executive of Standard Life Foundation. This week, the UK saw unemployment rise to five per cent, the highest level in five years. While it could have been a great deal worse, the economic outlook is far from rosy. At this difficult time, the...
Newslinks for Thursday 28th January 2021
Johnson ‘confident’ that EU efforts to ‘disrupt vaccine supplies’ will fail “Britain has more than enough coronavirus vaccines for this year and could eventually donate them to other countries, senior industry sources told The Times last...
Vaccines. The United Kingdom v a “rules-based organisation”.
One challenge for Brexiteers trying to sell their project to sceptics is overcoming the widespread psychological tendency towards loss aversion. This is a pattern of behaviour which, when applied to economics, is defined by Wikipedia as “the tendency to prefer...
Garvan Walshe: Navalny’s given Putin a splitting hedache: here’s how to make it worse
Garvan Walshe is a former National and International Security Policy Adviser to the Conservative Party. Alexey Navalny’s return to Russia was brave to the point of foolhardiness. The opposition leader was pretty sure that he would be arrested on trumped-up charges,...
Sam Hall: The Government must secure tougher emission-reduction commitments at this year’s COP26. Here’s how.
Sam Hall is the Director of the Conservative Environment Network. It is hard to overstate the centrality of COP26 to UK domestic and foreign policy this year. It will be the most significant international summit of 2021 and the most important set of climate...
Tim Briggs: Labour’s neglect of council housing tenants means the Party is losing working class votes
Cllr Tim Briggs is the sole Conservative councillor on Lambeth Council, and a London Assembly List Candidate for 2021 A recent survey suggested that Labour party members are now 70 per cent upper middle class and from London. The Labour party is losing touch with its...
Ben Roback: What do Biden’s appointments tell us about his presidency?
Ben Roback is Head of Trade and International Policy at Cicero Group. In what became an incredibly strange time between Joe Biden winning the 2020 election and taking the oath of office, the Cabinet began to take shape. It presented a political maze of trickery to be...
Andrew Gimson’s Commons sketch: The comedian has learned how to play tragedy
The pandemic has changed Boris Johnson. He is better than he was a year ago at being the sombre bearer of bad tidings, the leader who expresses the nation’s grief. Both at yesterday afternoon’s Downing Street press conference, and today at PMQs and in his...
WATCH: PMQs – “I and the Government take full responsibility for all the actions” during the pandemic, says Johnson
Benedict Rogers: The Government urgently needs an integration plan for those fleeing oppression in Hong Kong
Benedict Rogers is a human rights activist and writer and a former parliamentary candidate. He is the co-founder and Chief Executive of Hong Kong Watch, co-founder and Deputy Chair of the UK Conservative Party Human Rights Commission and a member of the advisory group...
