Our media has suffered greatly because of the manipulation by powerful overlords with a political axe to grind. Democracy and media independence are continually at risk,and we can only hope that our version of them survives.
Where Tony Blair arrived at a point of hope,Keir Starmer enters at a point of despair. The excitement and pride of 1997 have given way to deep cynicism and Brexit division.
Australia’s longest-serving Labor prime minister was a Rhodes scholar at Oxford between 1953 and 1956. In 1954,he drank a yard of ale.
The former firebrand political adviser is enjoying later-in-life acclaim due to his acute political insights and relaxed demeanour.
The former right-hand man to Tony Blair says Anthony Albanese can become the first long-term Labor prime minister in a generation by commanding the centre ground of Australian politics.
The government could use the precedent established by the Howard government in 2000. In that year,the Howard government made public,in advance of the then 30-year rule,historical records on Australia and East Timor between 1974 and 1976.
Marin,who was 37 years old when she took office in 2019,led Finland’s response to COVID and to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
The former Labour prime minister said that while from “time to time” the BBC would face scandals he supported an “important British institution”.
The Labour leader will seek to replace it with an elected upper chamber that has a higher proportion of Scottish seats.
One of the biggest questions of the FTX debacle is why were so many of the biggest names in business,politics and the media so willing to go along with the whole charade?