This morning, the Home Office is publishing its long-awaited white paper on legal migration. The Home Secretary has already been out on the airwaves, billing it as a ‘crackdown’ on low-skilled visas. This morning it was the turn of the Prime Minister. Keir Starmer deployed the Downing Street bully pulpit
Cynics will scoff at Donald Trump’s latest initiative: issuing an executive order forcing pharmaceutical companies to lower the prices of medical drugs used by US patients by between 30 and 80 percent. The President wants to impose what he calls a “most favored nation” rule, under which drugs companies would
Ceasefire then talks, or talks then ceasefire? This has emerged as one of the pivotal issues in the diplomacy around the war in Ukraine, even if one could question just how genuine both sides are in their respective positions. The proposed talks in Istanbul on Thursday may help clarify matters,
The surge in popularity of the UK Reform Party should provide some thought for the future of the declining Australian Liberals. After a woeful, invisible election campaign, their result was deserved, albeit giving Labor a result it did not deserve. With 34 per cent of first preferences, this was hardly
The National Party had a chance to give conservatives a sense of dignity by electing Matt Canavan as their new leader. Instead, we will get more of the same. This will embolden the Liberal left (I can’t believe such a term even exists) against Angus Taylor and Jacinta Nampijinpa Price.
It was Happy Unpaid Domestic Worker Day on the weekend, or as the rest of the world calls it, Mother’s Day. Which means we had to endure the jargon that reduces women and mothers to ‘unpaid domestic workers’. ‘Unpaid domestic workers’ sounds like a rejected column from an economist’s spreadsheet
Should political foes be friends? We who live in Western Democracies are quick to answer with a resounding ‘yes’. This is a historical anomaly, but civility in our politics has supposedly served us well. Tranquil notions of times gone by when the union leader could enter the town’s local grocer,
The White House has announced a breakthrough in trade negotiations with China following two days of talks in Switzerland. Yesterday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the two sides had made ‘substantial progress’. This morning, he said that the US would lower tariffs on China to 25 per cent from 145
Under pressure from the success of Reform, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has announced new measures designed to reduce net migration. The government will consider deporting any foreign criminals, and introduce new restrictions on visas for low-skilled jobs, including scrapping the care worker visa. On the BBC this morning, Laura Kuenssberg
This morning, the Home Office is publishing its long-awaited white paper on legal migration. The Home Secretary has already been out on the airwaves, billing it as a ‘crackdown’ on low-skilled visas. This morning it was the turn of the Prime Minister. Keir Starmer deployed the Downing Street bully pulpit
Cynics will scoff at Donald Trump’s latest initiative: issuing an executive order forcing pharmaceutical companies to lower the prices of medical drugs used by US patients by between 30 and 80 percent. The President wants to impose what he calls a “most favored nation” rule, under which drugs companies would
Ceasefire then talks, or talks then ceasefire? This has emerged as one of the pivotal issues in the diplomacy around the war in Ukraine, even if one could question just how genuine both sides are in their respective positions. The proposed talks in Istanbul on Thursday may help clarify matters,
The surge in popularity of the UK Reform Party should provide some thought for the future of the declining Australian Liberals. After a woeful, invisible election campaign, their result was deserved, albeit giving Labor a result it did not deserve. With 34 per cent of first preferences, this was hardly
The National Party had a chance to give conservatives a sense of dignity by electing Matt Canavan as their new leader. Instead, we will get more of the same. This will embolden the Liberal left (I can’t believe such a term even exists) against Angus Taylor and Jacinta Nampijinpa Price.
It was Happy Unpaid Domestic Worker Day on the weekend, or as the rest of the world calls it, Mother’s Day. Which means we had to endure the jargon that reduces women and mothers to ‘unpaid domestic workers’. ‘Unpaid domestic workers’ sounds like a rejected column from an economist’s spreadsheet
Should political foes be friends? We who live in Western Democracies are quick to answer with a resounding ‘yes’. This is a historical anomaly, but civility in our politics has supposedly served us well. Tranquil notions of times gone by when the union leader could enter the town’s local grocer,
The White House has announced a breakthrough in trade negotiations with China following two days of talks in Switzerland. Yesterday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the two sides had made ‘substantial progress’. This morning, he said that the US would lower tariffs on China to 25 per cent from 145
Under pressure from the success of Reform, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has announced new measures designed to reduce net migration. The government will consider deporting any foreign criminals, and introduce new restrictions on visas for low-skilled jobs, including scrapping the care worker visa. On the BBC this morning, Laura Kuenssberg
