“If there is a solution to the problems of arts funding, it will involve more than a handout from Boris Johnson, or the wisdom of Creative Scotland.”
Boris Johnson
“Will these polling results resemble the eventual makeup of Holyrood in 2021? Mibbes aye, mibbes naw. Will continuous and verifiable majority support for independence lead to a second referendum on the national question? Could be – but nobody’s quite sure how.”
Sean Bell: Polls, pundits and the perils of heeding the loudest voices
On Monday the Scottish Government proposed that the UK needs £80 billion of investment for a Coronavirus recovery plan – equating to 4% of the UK’s GDP. Instead, Boris Johnson has revealed his ‘New Deal’ for £5 billion of investment – 0.2% of the UK’s GDP – in a speech full of rhetoric.
Boris Johnson’s Underwhelming Recovery Plan
It’s easy for the left to pick fun at Boris Johnson’s attempt to harness former US President Franklin D. Roosevelt yesterday. The Prime Minister sought to channel FDR in a speech in Dudley, but announced just £5 billion of spending plans, which – as critics were quick to point out – was equivalent to £100 […]
Johnson may be no FDR, but his public investment plans could still out-manouvere the left
“British politics is a sealed world of class privileged, containing the nexus of housing, financial and media connexions which, if we were at the other end of Europe, would be called the British oligarchy, or Apparat.”
David Jamieson: The Jenrick Affair is a window into the world of the British oligarchy
“Nobody is going to hand us this new world on a plate. We need to work hard if we are going to make it different this time. A deeper emerging rise in consciousness to realise our real power is a good start.”
Tiffany Kane: Making change happen requires that we know our own power
“The international blast-radius of the BLM movement is substantial. Few western countries remain outside a wave of protests, often linking the death of Floyd to national and local crimes and injustices.”
Analysis: The BLM protests are shaping our post-lockdown world
All Dominic Cummings needed was ‘plausible deniability’. In the world of sharply polarised political opinion, Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s closest adviser, and a key strategic figure in the UK Government, didn’t need to be exonerated. He just needed […]
What the importance of one adviser tells us about Johnson
It is supremely embarrassing to Boris Johnson to find that, on the crucial matter of governance of the day, he is suddenly prime minister not of the UK but of England.