To win at the ballot box, the opposition party needs to ditch Blairite policies and offer a radical anti-establishment narrativeMaybe it was all a dream. Five years ago, I remember squeezing into my seat in Labour’s packed Liverpool conference venue to…
The Guardian view on silence about Brexit: time to talk turkey | Editorial
Labour and the Conservatives have both been happy to stay quiet about Brexit during the pandemic. That has to stopSince the 2019 general election, there has been a mutually convenient conspiracy of silence between Britain’s two main parties about Brexi…
Treasury minister branded ‘ridiculous’ after claiming HGV driver shortage nothing to do with Brexit – live
Simon Clarke, chief secretary to the Treasury, tells BBC: ‘The idea that this is somehow just a British problem is fundamentally wrong’100,000 renters in England ‘risk eviction’ when universal credit is cutDitching furlough will add to UK economic woes…
‘The woke’ are just the latest faux enemies of Englishness conjured up by the right | Patrick Wright
The myth of a silenced English majority betrayed by a liberal metropolitan elite goes back decadesPatrick Wright is the author of The Village That Died for England: Tyneham and the Legend of Churchill’s PledgeLike some of the emeritus professors who ha…
France warns UK of ‘retaliation’ as Jersey braces for blockade in fishing row
Channel island’s government rejected third of French boats and ordered them out of its waters within 30 daysJersey’s government is bracing itself for a blockade of its main port by angry fishers and France said it would look at “retaliation measures” a…
Three-quarters of small French boats may be denied fishing in UK waters
UK government has granted licences for only 12 French vessels out of a total of 47 applicationsThree-quarters of small French fishing boats could be denied access to British waters under a post-Brexit regime in a move that risks further damaging Anglo-…
Supply chain crisis could last months admits PM but fuel situation ‘improving’
Labour accuses PM of ‘reducing the country to chaos’ with cars continuing to queue and fights breaking outBritain’s supply chain strain could last until after Christmas, Boris Johnson has admitted as he urged motorists to stop panic-buying fuel by insi…
The Guardian view on fuel shortages: this crisis needs management | Editorial
Ministers were warned that Brexit would cause problems for hauliers. The chaos in forecourts is a mess of their makingQueues at the petrol pumps are never a good look for a government. They are especially bad in a pandemic, when so many people already …
Northern Irish unionist parties form alliance to oppose Brexit protocol
Four parties including DUP and Ulster Unionists issue statement warning of ‘grave damage’ under new rulesFour rival unionist parties in Northern Ireland have formed an alliance to fight the Brexit protocol, issuing a joint statement weeks after the De…
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Brexit Crisis Worsened By Rampant Capitalism A Different Bias is a channel started in 2018 by then-teacher Phil Moorhouse to turn his “ranting about politics in the staffroom” into videos about Brexit era Britain. Over the past year the “socialist, Pr…