To add to the austerity streak that the Tory government had made the UK internationally renown for, Oliver comments on the longstanding desire for increased social segregation and stratification that the party has demonstrated through years in power. Comparing past and new government Tories, here is a look over the most recent fiasco involving the jeopardy of young futures, and how incompetence made by the refusal to sack useless yes-men caused the penalty of A-level grades in poorer areas.
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Political patriarchs
Print Music Editor Oliver Leader de Saxe breaks down the origins of the most powerful men in the world
A Watershed Moment?
Isabel Murray discusses how recent movements have the potential to rewrite Britain’s imperial history.
Implications of US imports on UK farmers in a Brexit UK-US trade deal
It seems the Brexetian repercussions are endless. This last exeposè illustrates the UK government’s opportunities for reform as negotiations involving agriculture continue digitally throughout the pandemic, with big names and a large petition advocating reform.
What Dom Has Done
As the scandal surrounding Dominic Cummings’ trip to Durham continues to dominate the headlines, Isaac Bettridge analyses what this tells us about Cummings, his boss and the government’s handling of the coronavirus crisis.
Cummings and Goings
Dominic Cummings, the PM’s most senior advisor, is the latest political figure to have been exposed for allegedly breaking lockdown rules.
Keep Calm and Carry On?
Aaron Loose discusses the government’s new message to ‘Stay Alert’ and the implications behind using such slogans to guide the Coronavirus pandemic
The Limits of Charity: Tom Moore vs Austerity
In unambiguous campaigns to ‘protect the NHS’ that emulate those seen in the war, the Government directly highlights their own failings. The public is being asked to provide for these failings through, exemplarily, donations. Rather than in disillusionment, the result will be of a public quickly forgetting the chronic societal issues that have brought this on – in the name of national pride.
Analysing the pattern of Boris Johnson’s indecision about coronavirus
Amy expresses skepticism on the outward appearance of our government around COVID-19. This being the phasing in of “draconian” measures as the government’s approach to greater palatability for the nation. This is, rather, a rouse behind which hides the Tory cabinet’s ambiguity and sudden 180 turn. The article analyses the pattern of Johnson’s behaviour that has left many in the UK unconvinced.
Coronavirus: Assessing the UK’s Public Health Response
Coronavirus: Assessing the UK’s Public Health Response Adam Robertson Charlton examines the UK Government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic and assesses rationale behind it. As I sit down to write this, the world is at the start of the greatest crisis since the Second World War, the biggest biological disaster since the Spanish flu. That […]