A recent vacancy advertised on the civil service jobs website states: “The Government is committed to increasing the number of Civil Service roles throughout the UK under its Places for Growth programme and this will see more roles based outside London and the South East … roles are being advertised on a national basis and will be home working.” Someone tell Jacob Rees-Mogg and Boris Johnson, お願いします (Remote working is making the UK a more equal place – however much Jacob Rees-Mogg may sneer, 15 五月).
Liz Asser
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The hypocrisy of anti-abortionists laid bare
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Moira Donegan’s thoughtful piece (Roe v Wade has been overturned. Here’s what this will mean, 24 六月) helped make sense of some of the anger I’m feeling about the decision made by the supreme court in the US, despite...
Queensland public servants cowed by ‘high price’ of speaking out, Peter Coaldrake says
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Queensland’s public servants have become fearful of providing frank and fearless advice to government because of the “high price” paid by some who do, according to the man who led a landmark review of the sector. Prof...
The environmental case for cutting down on red meat is clear
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Aidan Harrison’s letter (23 六月) took issue with George Monbiot’s argument that grazing cattle and sheep impose a huge environmental cost (Opinion, 20 六月). しかしながら, Harrison’s criticisms were deeply flawed. Ruminan...
If Labour won’t stand up for working people, unions will
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Labour is losing its sense of purpose just as the trade unions that gave birth to the party have rediscovered theirs. This may seem churlish given that the party won a byelection just last week, but the polling tells ...
Outsourcing has eroded workers’ wages and rights
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Much as I agreed with your editorial’s exposition of the abject failings of privatisation (22 六月), you might add that mass outsourcing has also fuelled in-work poverty and eroded terms and conditions for hundreds of...
Brexit and other offensive words starting with the letter B
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I would love to have been a fly on the wall when the subject of the EU came up during the meetings between Boris Johnson and Ukraine’s President Zelenskiy. How could Johnson, master of bullshit, have possibly handled ...
Cancelling Kate Clanchy has blocked publication of our kids’ poems
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I am the (mixed-race) mother of one of the kids from diverse backgrounds that Kate Clanchy nurtured into creating “sometimes luminous” poetry (The book that tore publishing apart: ‘Harm has been done, and now everyone...