Later this week, he is expected to change the government’s stance on oil and gas exploitation, with a new energy secretary in place. Those Labour MPs worried about the Green Party taking their seats will be concerned about this – but a lot more will be worried about whether this could be seen to be…
“This reprioritisation of public resource shows a change in direction towards improving everyday life and strengthening local economies over expensive national government schemes.” Plans for a digital ID scheme had initially been introduced by Sir Keir ahead of Labour’s conference last year. At the time, Starmer argued that mandatory digital ID for workers would make…
MELBOURNE — Australia has released a new strategy in its latest effort to grow its sovereign defense industrial base, kicking off reforms to how it will develop and acquire platforms in coming years. The Defence Industry Development Strategy (DIDS) released today is the third top-level Australian defense document put out this year, following the release…
The U.S. Supreme Court on June 25 ruled that the Trump administration can reimplement a policy of turning away asylum-seekers along the U.S.-Mexico border before they enter the country, known as “metering.” The central question in the case was whether noncitizen asylum-seekers must literally cross the border in order to apply for asylum, or if…
Sir Keir Starmer had years in opposition to prepare for government. His likely successor, Andy Burnham, has weeks. Unlike the outgoing prime minister, Mr Burnham will bring past ministerial experience to the top job as well as lessons learned as the mayor of Greater Manchester. But as every veteran of No 10 attests, the pressures in that building…
(RNS) — In the face of an accelerating U.S. pressure campaign, deteriorating public utilities and economic inefficiency, Cuba’s communist government on Thursday (June 18) announced sweeping economic reforms, the largest privatization since before Fidel Castro’s revolution in 1959. Since January, the Trump administration has made repeated threats of military action, and its sanctions and an…
In April, to mark the day on which Americans are expected to file their taxes, the New York mayor, Zohran Mamdani, filmed himself on Billionaires’ Row, an enclave of super-tall apartment buildings just south of Central Park. When he took office, he said, he would tax the rich, and now, outside the hedge fund billionaire…
For a year now, the Chemical Safety Board, a small independent agency that investigates chemical spills and other disasters has faced elimination under President Trump’s budget cuts. That hasn’t stopped the board from taking on the Trump administration. The agency is now opposing an attempt to roll back new chemical disaster rules that were introduced…
Journalists from News24 checked the new immigration document and found that 102 out of 148 references are completely fake. Two independent law firms will run the disciplinary hearings and check every policy document the department wrote since November 2022. The Department of Home Affairs has suspended two senior officials. They face action because they used…
It’s Gatwick airport, mid-afternoon, and on the runway there is turmoil. Public policy playing out in full view of the public. Voters, citizens, seeing what they don’t normally see. “Murdaar, murdaaaaar,” screams the bucking, brawling, brawny man as a clutch of male security officials, with solid intent and hi-vis yellow jackets, collectively fight to pin…
