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Attempt to force release of Johnson’s messages on Covid in care homes fails
High court rules that government does not have to disclose potentially explosive WhatsApp textsCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe government has successfully resisted disclosure of potentially explosive WhatsApp messages be…
How can Britain be committed to net zero when it’s about to drill for millions more barrels of oil? | Greg Muttitt
Hypocrisy rules as we prepare to host Cop26 and Boris Johnson prepares to approve a new oilfield off ShetlandJust months before hosting the Cop26 climate summit in Glasgow, the UK government will decide whether to approve a massive new oilfield 75 mile…
Johnson to urge Biden to keep US troops at Kabul airport after 31 August
PM’s request to be made at G7 summit as Taliban increases grip on access to flightsBoris Johnson will personally lobby Joe Biden at the G7 leaders summit, No 10 said on Sunday night, pleading with him to keep US troops at Kabul airport beyond the end o…
If only Dominic Raab had watched Iron Man | Stewart Lee
The foreign secretary was in good company in woefully misjudging the Taliban threatMany of the excitable characters who impulsively phone talk radio stations without having thought through their contradictory positions are rightly horrified by footage …
Afghans face catastrophe without urgent aid, UN warns
As deaths are reported in crush at Kabul airport, Keir Starmer leads calls for Dominic Raab to resign over UK’s ‘complacent’ responseAfghanistan is facing an “absolute catastrophe” involving widespread hunger, homelessness and economic collapse unless …
Boris Johnson and Dominic Raab fail Afghanistan – cartoon
The prime minister and the foreign secretary do a good job of delegation – and not much else• You can order your own copy of this cartoon Continue reading…
Why reshuffle-shy Boris Johnson is reluctant to sack ministers
Analysis: Dominic Raab is saved for now but enters ministerial limbo ahead of PM’s long-awaited shake-up of top teamDominic Raab appears to have been saved this week by Boris Johnson’s exceptionally high threshold for sacking ministers. For now, the fo…
We’re paying the price of the UK government’s herd immunity policy | Letter
The legacy of Boris Johnson’s initial approach to the pandemic can be measured in lives needlessly lost and ruined, says Michael RosenYour report on US officials’ reaction to Boris Johnson’s initial coronavirus policy, to aim for herd immunity (Trump t…
Johnson’s Tories seem to defy reality – but Labour’s ‘realistic’ politics isn’t working | Andy Beckett
Effective politics promises to change who has power, not just manage it more competentlyThe ongoing disaster in Afghanistan is only the latest fiasco to provoke fury at the unseriousness of Boris Johnson’s government. In fact, for the past 20 years Bri…