Boris Johnson stands down as a member of UK parliament with immediate effect
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UK MPs are expected to vote on the Privileges committee's verdict on whether Boris Johnson lied to Parliament over partygate on June 29. Tory MPs will NOT be whipped to back Johnson.
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Labour’s surprisingly bold UK economic agenda
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Danish far-right politician Rasmus Paludan has been barred from the UK after threatening to burn a copy of the Quran in Wakefield
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Nicola Sturgeon unexpectedly quits as first minister of Scotland
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BBC offices in India raided by tax officials amid Narendra Modi documentary fallout
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Diplomats from Finland have a unique way of engaging with people – will the UK warm to naked sauna diplomacy?
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Supreme court rules against Scottish parliament holding new independence referendum
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Rishi Sunak to become first British Asian PM as Penny Mordaunt bows out
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Liz Truss to be next UK Prime Minister
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Boris Johnson, the UK's embattled prime minister, announced he's resigning
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Scottish independence: 19 October 2023 proposed as date for referendum
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UK has reached an agreement with Norway and the EU over how to divide fish stocks in the North Sea next year
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Jailed for fifty-one weeks for protesting? Britain is becoming a police state by stealth
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Tens of thousands of Hong Kongers leave the city to accept British citizenship
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Millions in UK face disenfranchisement under voter ID plans
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UK and Norway have failed to reach a fishing deal for this year, with the industry warning that hundreds of crew members will be left out of work
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Keir Starmer struggles to counter Boris Johnson’s ‘vaccine bounce’ as UK polls loom
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Peace in Northern Ireland is fragile
Striking image: "There was never a good war or a bad peace": https://twitter.com/OrlaithClinton/status/1379900804878974979?s=20 A useful thread:...
Striking image: "There was never a good war or a bad peace": https://twitter.com/OrlaithClinton/status/1379900804878974979?s=20
A useful thread: https://twitter.com/OrlaithClinton/status/1379869873787002887?s=20
This is 1) heart-breaking and 2) very, very, worrying.
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‘Stories are chosen due to editorial merit’ and ‘newsworthy updates’ - BBC
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Race report: 'UK not deliberately rigged against ethnic minorities'
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UK voters might regret Brexit, but most of them don't feel like reversing it anymore
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Norway may stop British and EU vessels fishing in its waters from January 1st – talks held up by London's protracted Brexit standoff with Brussels
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Is the UK moving towards government by decree?
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Boris Johnson's new Brexit trade advisor is former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott
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Britain should not quake before Xi Jinping: China has already peaked and faces economic stagnation
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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson tells European Union workers to come back, but must quarantine
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Boris Johnson says three million people in Hong Kong will get path to British citizenship
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UK may offer citizenship path to three million Hong Kong residents
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Dominic Cummings' statement, a guided tour
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The crisis within conservatism: Since the 80s, the right has increasingly relied on media bubbles, wedge issues, resistance to social change and making electoral participation harder to hold power
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What would the effects of a breakup of the UK be and how likely is that to happen?
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The UK Labour party has a new leader: Keir Starmer
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Choppy waters of Brexit threaten Danish fishing – after Brexit the UK is taking control of its exclusive economic zone, stretching up to 200 nautical miles offshore
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There's a dark side to Boris Johnson's government, and even his allies are fed up with it
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Finland's Minister for Foreign Affairs, Pekko Haavisto, says the crisis over Brexit could have a beneficial effect on the European Union, pulling the bloc together
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Handbook on countering Russian and Chinese interference in Europe
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UK Parliament gives final backing to Withdrawal Agreement bill, UK is due to leave EU on January 31 with eleven-month transition period
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David Edgerton: "Boris Johnson might break up the UK. That’s a good thing."
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I’ve studied the ‘weirdos’ Dominic Cummings is talking about – I’m not sure he really understands who they are
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Exit poll suggests Conservatives are set to win an overall majority of eighty-six in the UK general election
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Scotland's UK election results deliver another independence mandate, says First Minister
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Boris Johnson’s Conservatives are a revolutionary sect and should be understood as such
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Investigation prior to UK General Election finds 88% of Tory social media ads misleading compared to 0% for Labour
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Secret UK documents show NHS for sale in Donald Trump Brexit trade talks: Corbyn
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Labour's spending plans aren't especially unusual – just look at Sweden
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"Children and Politics" - a 3 minute interview with British children before the 1964 general election
This is short, but it demonstrates something that's been missing from tv for a while, which is the simple interview with children that recognises they are children but still takes them seriously...
This is short, but it demonstrates something that's been missing from tv for a while, which is the simple interview with children that recognises they are children but still takes them seriously as humans.
EDIT: Somehow I missed the main link, which goes to a BFI page here: https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-children-and-politics-1964-online
There are some amazing old (1960s, 1970s) British tv interviews with children carried out by Harold Williamson. He asks children a question and then just lets them answer. There's no attempt to laugh at the children, and there's no attempt to say "zomg look at what this cute kid is saying".
A few clips here, https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06tq93b and there are probably more on Youtube: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06tq93b
It's showing its age - "what would you do if your husbands went on strike? How would you run a household?" (asked of two girls) isn't acceptable.
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UK Parliament approves snap general election on Dec. 12
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What can the UK learn from Norway's EU border? Its border, with EU member state Sweden, is over a thousand miles long.
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After Labour's conference pledge to scrap Ofsted and private schools in the UK, does the envied Finnish education system provide the blueprint?
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