Snap guide to this session’s Government legislation 6) Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill
Our introduction to: what each Bill is, the politics of it, who’s responsible, arguments for and against – and a controversy rating out of ten.
Highlights
Bella Wallersteiner: As a parliamentary staffer, I’m appalled by the double standards on who has to wear a mask
Furthermore, I will not attend the Conservative Party Conference if vaccine passports are required.
The people, the product, the audience – where has GB News gone wrong?
The latest entrant in the British media landscape has got off to a very rocky start. Can the UK’s news-light news channel find its feet?
Sarah Ingham: Why is so much art in Britain’s public realm either ugly, witless or pointless?
Too often councillors are cheerleaders-in-chief for incongruous cultural blots on our landscapes.
Raghib Ali: Systemic classism, not racism. Why the main factor in health and educational inequalities is deprivation, not race.
The fourth part of a series on ConHome this week about the politics of race and ethnicity in Britain today.
The Northern Ireland Protocol’s “serious societal difficulties”
By making it formally clear that the Government thinks the Protocol is unworkable, Johnson, Frost and Lewis have stepped into the unknown.
Garvan Walshe: Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan may not be a strategic mistake, but it is a moral disaster.
Afghan security force members are being murdered. Girls’ schools are being shut down. Iran and Russia are weighing up a return to the quagmire.
David Skelton: The new snobbery. How football fans and Brexit voters were demonised as racists.
We need a multi-racial working-class conservatism that tackles discrimination – and prioritises removing the barriers that prevent people advancing.
Is racism in Britain increasing?
The third part of a series on ConHome this week about the politics of race and ethnicity in Britain today.
Emily Carver: The Government’s plan to make exams easier will be devastating for this country’s education system
The Department of Education wants to address school disruption by “reducing pressure” on students.
Daniel Hannan: Is it worth decarbonising if the rest of the world won’t follow?
Leading by example is all well and good. Impoverishing yourself in order to make a point, not so much.
Alex Morton: We need to boost our brownfield developments. But that doesn’t mean a zero greenfield approach.
One of the more seductive myths in the housing debate is that there is enough brownfield land to satisfy our building needs.
Will Starmer give vaccine passports a free pass?
The Government’s scheme is deeply problematic and there’s a potential Commons majority against it.
Richard Holden: We need mayors to do for other places what Houchen is doing for Teesside
Commentators in big cities missed the point of a Prime Ministerial speech aimed at smaller ones, towns, counties and the countryside.
ConservativeHome to bring back its Next Tory Leader survey
We plan to send it out to our panel of party members roughly four times a year rather than monthly as previously.