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What unites conservatives in the US and the UK? Terrible solutions to the cost of living crisis
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Energy bills have gone through the roof, but that hasn’t curtailed the British government’s enthusiasm for gaslighting. Rather than take any responsibility for the cost of living crisis (o, God forbid, try to solve i...
Conservatives brace for losses as votes counted in local elections
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The Conservatives are braced for a nerve-shredding 24 hours after voting closed in local elections across the UK, with Labour and the Liberal Democrats expecting to make gains. Taking place against the backdrop of the...
Seth Meyers on the abortion ruling: conservatives ‘always have to play the victim’
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Mercoledì sera, late-night hosts condemned the leaked supreme court draft opinion to overturn Roe v Wade, and how Republican lawmakers focused on the leak itself and not the dire consequences of the decision. “It ...
Local government in England ‘hollowed out’ under Conservatives
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Poorer areas have been hit disproportionally by a combination of cuts to neighbourhood services such as parks, libraries, refuse collection and children’s centres that have left English councils “hollowed out” since 2...
UK politics live: Labour and Lib Dems make ‘informal plan to topple Conservatives’
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Conservatives accused of ‘levelling up’ stunt to save Boris Johnson’s job
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The government has been accused of trying to manipulate announcements on extra funding for poorer parts of the UK in a desperate attempt to save Boris Johnson’s premiership. An extraordinary row blew up after Michael ...
US conservatives linked to rich donors wage campaign to ban books from schools
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Conservative groups across the US, often linked to deep-pocketed rightwing donors, are carrying out a campaign to ban books from school libraries, often focused on works that address race, LGBTQ issues or marginalized...
If Omicron is on the retreat, that’s bad news for the Conservatives
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After two years, there is light at the end of the Covid-19 tunnel. Daily recorded cases of the Omicron variant are falling and it seems likely plan B restrictions will be eased in England at the end of the month. Nico...
US supreme court conservatives appear skeptical of workplace vaccine rule
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The supreme court’s conservative majority appeared skeptical on Friday of the Biden administration’s authority to impose a vaccine-or-testing requirement on the nation’s large employers. The court was also hearing arg...
As the Conservatives implode, the red wall suddenly seems in Labour’s grasp
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“I fucking hate the Labour party, they’re a fucking disgrace … They’ve betrayed the working classes, they’ve betrayed ordinary people.” Thus spake Noel Gallagher, the former Oasis guitarist, and out it poured on to Tw...
For Labour and the Conservatives, racism is really all about reputation management
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It’s rare that the quiet part is said out loud in British politics: the thing that arrives in a chilling soundbite a politician has let slip, or in correspondence leaked many years after those who wrote it leave power...
The fatal weakness of the Conservatives is not seeing the kindness in most people
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Whatever political dramas are erupting on a seemingly daily basis – with the flouncing off of the Brexit minister, Signore del gelo, just the latest – most people are now exhausted. After repeated lurches from pessimism to ...
The Conservatives have a problem: their supporters come from different worlds
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Whenever the government faces criticism, one of the first questions commentators ask is whether the latest fiasco will have cut through in the “red wall”. While the red wall does indeed represent one substantial and i...
‘Bow to the king’: Conservatives kowtow to Boris Johnson
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There is normally a prince over the water at Conservative conference, the alternative attraction members flock to see at fringes. For many years it was Boris Johnson, though Jacob Rees-Mogg and Liz Truss have conteste...
The Pandora papers: who’s giving money to the Conservatives? – podcast
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Fresh questions for the Conservative party today after it emerged one of its major donors was involved in structuring of a telecoms deal later alleged to be corrupt How to li...
Pandora Papers: senior Conservatives dodge questions about donors – video
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Senior Tories attending their party conference refused to comment on party donors being named in the Pandora Papers. Cabinet ministers including Michael Gove, Priti Patel and Jacob Rees-Mogg all refused to answer any ...