As she prepares for crunch EU talks this week, the foreign secretary says her priority is to protect Northern Ireland’s peace dealThe foreign secretary, Liz Truss, has warned she is prepared to unilaterally override parts of the post-Brexit agreement o…
Farm subsidy plan ‘risks increasing the UK’s reliance on food imports’
Government scheme to replace EU agricultural payments fuelled by ‘blind optimism’ and still lacking crucial details, say MPsThe government’s plans for a post-Brexit scheme to support British farming are based on little more than “blind optimism” and ri…
アメリカでは、3人に1人が”政府に対する暴力は正当化される”と考えている —— 最新調査
“政府に対する暴力は正当化される”と考えている人の割合が増加する一方で、”暴力は決して正当化されない”と考えている人の割合は減っていると言います。
欧州委「原子力と天然ガスは両方グリーン」認定は露骨な妥協策。脱炭素目指すなら日本にも判断の時は来る
EU欧州委員会が原子力と天然ガスの両方を「持続可能なグリーンエネルギー源」と認定したことが、世界中で大きな話題を呼んでいます。
ただしこの動き、欧州一体の「決断」と見るには無理があるようです。
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Martin Rowson on the various epiphanies beginning the year – cartoon
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Johnson fumbles and flails under pressure from Rayner| john crace
At the first PMQ of the year, faced with tough questioning by Labour’s deputy leader, the prime minister threw truth to the windsIt’s an ill wind and all that. With Keir Starmer testing positive for Covid for the second time in a matter of months, it w…
Protecting vulnerable from £700 hike in energy bills means hard choices now | Nils Pratley
The options are unattractive but a massively expanded warm homes scheme gets the vote hereIt’s choose your poison time for a government that must know allowing low-income households to suffer the full blast of the scheduled rise in energy bills in Apri…
UK Covid live: pre-departure tests for travellers to England to be scrapped; 194,747 new cases reported
From 4am on Friday pre-departure tests no longer required for people arriving in England as UK records second highest number of daily casesAlmost 200,000 new Covid cases reported in UKFollow-up PCRs after positive LFT to be suspended in EnglandTravel s…
PMQs: Boris Johnson and Angela Rayner clash over energy prices and inflation
Prime minister talks up rising employment and makes false claims over inflationBoris Johnson and Angela Rayner have clashed over energy prices and the wider cost of living in the first prime minister’s questions of the year, during which Johnson made a…
Keir Starmer to unveil plan to build on Labour’s poll lead momentum
Leader will accuse PM of treating politics like ‘a branch of the entertainment industry’ in speechKeir Starmer will launch his plan to maintain the momentum of Labour’s poll lead in the runup to the next election, accusing Boris Johnson of losing voter…