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1 day ago
  • 1 min, 5 secs
  • #politics
  • #theguardian.com
  • Summary

Younger citizens largely saw Brexit as an attack on their futures, a rupture only made possible thanks to grey voters, while much of the so-called culture wars boils down to a backlash among older Britons against the increasingly progressive values of millennials and generation Z.

That reduces society to a cauldron of often dangerous resentments, variously encouraging many to believe that our lives would be better if the undeserving would stop hogging meagre services and entitlements: often, the demonised foreigner, or supposedly feckless fellow Brits.

For many younger citizens, their worldviews understandably defined by their chronic economic insecurity and inclusive social values, there lurks the spectre of the bigoted, entitled, selfish boomer, whose dreadful electoral choices have robbed them of their futures.

1 day ago
  • 1 min, 1 sec
  • #politics
  • #theguardian.com
  • Summary

The next Labour government must break with the idea that we can no longer afford to build new social rented homes, and instead return to the ideals of the postwar consensus, where housing provision was as much a role for the state as health and education.

Labour should change the state’s housing policy objective from boosting home ownership to relieving and preventing homelessness – the most obvious and tragic manifestation of our broken system.

By promising to be judged on its ability to reduce rough sleeping, the number of families in temporary accommodation and individuals who present to their local authority as homeless, Labour would mark a vital philosophical shift from which better policy would flow.

1 day ago
  • 56 secs
  • #politics
  • #theguardian.com
  • Summary

Covid ravaged every organ in Mr Draper’s body so that, in the programme aired this week, viewers saw this vibrant, sharp-witted man confined to a bed, struggling to walk or to form sentences.

News bulletins will regularly feature stories on the desperate erosion of the NHS and the crisis in social care – yet they rarely look into the lives of wives, husbands, sons and daughters who step in where the state has failed.

It may be easier for an accountant, say, to negotiate more flexibility at work so that they can care for a parent; but companies that provide precarious contracts and low pay also need to step up to the mark.

1 day ago
  • 53 secs
  • #politics
  • #theguardian.com
  • Summary

A letter signed by more than 130 parliamentarians to the foreign secretary, David Cameron, highlights action taken by other countries, most recently Canada, which last week announced it would halt all arms exports to Israel.

Some of the foreign secretary’s criticisms have by implication suggested Israel as the occupying power is not complying with its duty under international law to supply food and water to Palestinian civilians.

Sultana said: “With the Israeli government now seemingly disregarding the UN security council’s ceasefire resolution, it is again violating international law and making the case for an end to arms sales impossible to ignore.

1 day ago
  • 53 secs
  • #politics
  • #theguardian.com
  • Summary

David Neal was dismissed as the independent chief inspector of borders and immigration last month after leaking information about apparent security failures at London City airport.

Neal was speaking about his report on security issues at London City airport, which found that “high-risk” private jets were not being checked as they arrived in the country.

A Home Office spokesperson said: “The factual accuracy process allows us to offer further information, corrections or context which may be helpful to the chief inspector, who has the final say on what goes in to the report.

1 day ago
  • 1 min, 7 secs
  • #politics
  • #theguardian.com
  • Summary

Peter Mandelson has dismissed the prospect of an incoming Labour government taking Britain back into the EU, saying “you’ve got to be joking” that Brussels would want to renegotiate the UK’s membership.

The Labour peer, a former EU trade commissioner and close adviser to Keir Starmer, said rejoining the 27-country bloc would require a referendum that UK voters had little desire for, after the Conservatives’ botched handling of Brexit.

Trump, who launched a series of increasingly bitter trade battles with the US’s traditional allies and adversaries alike during his time in the White House, has said that if he is elected in November then he will impose 10% tariffs on all goods imported into the US.

#Politics

Controversial attack ad on Sadiq Khan made solely by Tory HQ, source says
1 day ago

Controversial attack ad on Sadiq Khan made solely by Tory HQ, source says

1 min, 1 sec

Summary

The controversial Conservative attack video that portrayed London as a crime-racked hellhole was put together by the central party rather than its mayoral candidate, and has dismayed some around Susan Hall, the Guardian has learned.

While Hall is the main challenger to the incumbent London mayor in the 2 May election, a Tory party source said the video was entirely the work of Conservative campaign headquarters (CCHQ), and had not been well received.

Some Conservative MPs have expressed worries that CCHQ output such as the Hall video points towards a likely Donald Trump-echoing approach in the general election, in which openly incorrect claims are made to create an impact.

Minimum wage is UK’s ‘most successful economic policy in a generation’
1 day ago

Minimum wage is UK’s ‘most successful economic policy in a generation’

1 min, 2 secs

Summary

The minimum wage has driven up the pay of millions of Britain’s lowest earners by £6,000 a year, making it the single most successful economic policy in a generation, according to a leading thinktank.

Nye Cominetti, principal economist at the Resolution Foundation, said parliament should use a review of the commission’s remit “to discuss the future of the minimum wage and low pay more widely ahead of the election”.

He said: “Politicians should reflect on why the minimum wage has been so successful – such as the combination of long-term political direction and independent, expert-led oversight – and whether this approach could be broadened to tackle some of the UK’s other low pay challenges.”

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