Tag: rishi-sunak

  • …September 2024

    …September 2024

    Britain’s Labour government will remember September as the month the wheels came off the bus; for the rest of us this is just politics as usual. So far the prime minister Keir Starmer has not quite managed to make a total Liz Truss of things but she did set a very low bar, and hovering…

  • …May 2024

    …May 2024

    May has been dominated by elections, in India, Taiwan, South Africa and the EU. Britain started the month with local and mayoral elections, which gave everyone the chance to give the government a good kicking at the ballot box.

  • …April 2024

    …April 2024

    Once again, events in the Middle East have dominated the news, both at home and abroad. Trump is in court, while the climate, China and NATO are all in the news, along with Rishi Sunak’s shoes…

  • …March 2024

    …March 2024

    March started with George Galloway’s return to Parliament, having won the Rochdale by-election. This prompted Rishi Sunak, who inexplicably is still prime minister, to give an impromptu speech about the dangers of extremism…