Poco a poco, los talibanes van excluyendo a las mujeres de la vida pública en Afganistán, pero algunas están decididas a alzar la voz, pese a las represalias que pueda emprender el movimiento islamista radical. Durante su anterior mandato, de 1996 a 2001, los talibanes se dieron a conocer por haber pisoteado los derechos de […]
Read MoreKwasi Kwarteng, the business secretary, is now giving evidence to the business committee about gas supply. Darren Jones, the Labour chair, asks what the PM meant yesterday when he said this would be temporary. Kwarteng says that the gas prices has spiked, but that you would expect it to revert to the mean. But he […]
Read MoreBrazil’s health minister, Marcelo Queiroga, has tested positive for Covid and gone into isolation, 24 hours after meeting a maskless Boris Johnson and other British officials in New York. Queiroga, who sat close to Johnson and the foreign secretary, Liz Truss, on Monday during their meeting with Brazil’s president, Jair Bolsonaro, announced his positive test […]
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The law’s passage followed intense lobbying pressure by the Culinary Union, the influential labor group that represents more than 60,000 hospitality workers in Las Vegas and Reno. Geoconda Argüello-Kline, the group’s secretary-treasurer, told me that the law reflected a moral responsibility toward the community by the hospitality industry. While some major business groups withdrew their […]
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The lawsuit is also unusual in other ways. Stilley spent almost an entire page making unrelated assertions about Braid and his beliefs. The complaint claims that Braid “is kind and patient and helpful toward bastards, but ideologically opposed to forcing any woman to produce another bastard against her own free will,” that he “has some […]
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OSHA’s most recent ruling on heat exposure, during the Trump administration, was not encouraging. In February 2019, OSHA vacated an administrative law judge’s ruling against a roofing company that employed a 60-year-old man who died of heat stroke. That case was complicated by the man’s preexisting medical conditions (hepatitis C and congestive heart failure) and an outdoor […]
Read MoreThere’s an obvious way out for Democrats struggling to cobble together the votes for the more liberal reconciliation bill that is part of their two-pronged approach to infrastructure: come together and pass what they can, sending it to President Biden’s desk. It will be a win for the president, a sign the party can govern […]
Read MoreIf you move in upper middle class circles, you know the conversation: A friend or relative comes back from sojourn in Europe with endless critiques of American life. The food in Italy, the trains in Germany, the architecture in Czechia — everything American pales in comparison. Some of these comparisons are merely annoying, like the […]
Read MoreThe new leader of Unite will miss Labour’s annual conference, saying she needs to prioritise her job of sorting out industrial disputes. Sharon Graham, who was elected as Unite leader on a promise to take the union “back to the workplace”, is believed to be the first in the job to miss the annual event. […]
Read MoreEnvironmental activists blocking the M25 face possible imprisonment after National Highways was granted an injunction against their protests, the transport secretary, Grant Shapps, has said. The campaign group Insulate Britain has shut down parts of the M25 five times in just over a week. Shapps wrote on Twitter: “Invading a motorway is reckless and puts […]
Read MoreIt’s an uncomfortable thing to admit, but in the countercultural movements where my sympathies lie, people are dropping like flies. Every few days I hear of another acquaintance who has become seriously ill with Covid, after proudly proclaiming the benefits of “natural immunity”, denouncing vaccines and refusing to take the precautions that apply to lesser […]
Read MoreMore than £1bn-worth of UK state pensions has been underpaid due to repeated human errors that were almost inevitable amid complex rules and outdated IT systems, a spending watchdog has said. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) estimates it underpaid 134,000 pensioners and those it can trace would be paid an average of £8,900, […]
Read MoreThe designer of the familiar British Rail logo has warned against government plans to revamp the symbol and dismissed an attempt to give it a green makeover as a “load of old bollocks”. The transport secretary, Grant Shapps, has said his plans for the new Great British Railways will involve “updated versions of the classic […]
Read MoreMinisters are considering ways to cut energy bills for the poorest households amid soaring gas prices as analysis suggests a typical low-income UK family will be £1,750 worse off by next April. On Tuesday Boris Johnson brushed away worries about a wider cost of living squeeze and shortages this winter, saying “Christmas is on”. But […]
Read MoreMy first job in journalism was editing a free magazine called Rasp. In 1995, we ran a competition for a year’s supply of Two Dogs lemon brew, the Australian alcopop. Two Dogs tried to send us 365 bottles, and I negotiated them up to 1,000, indignant that a bottle a day could constitute a “supply”. […]
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The House voted along party lines on Tuesday night to fund the government until early December and suspend the federal debt limit through 2022. The bill now heads to the Senate, where some Republicans have already said they oppose the measure. The bill was passed with a vote of 220-211, and also provides disaster relief […]
Read MoreMinisters have no clear plans to tackle rising child poverty, while a lack of focus and leadership has hindered efforts to reduce the numbers of youngpeople living in hardship, a cross-party group of MPs has said. The House of Commons work and pensions select committee said ministers needed to draw up a fresh cross-departmental anti-poverty […]
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On Tuesday, Biden delivered his first address to the United Nations; its unstated aim was to reassure increasingly dubious allies and continue to make the argument he made early in his presidency: “America is back.” For the president, his maiden address before the international body was framed by a pair of foreign policy crises—the chaotic, […]
Read MoreBritain’s hopes of a post-Brexit trade deal with the US have all but evaporated barring a dramatic change of heart from President Biden, it emerged on Tuesday as Boris Johnson prepared for face-to-face talks in the White House. Johnson once regarded a bilateral free trade agreement with the US as a key Brexit win, highlighting […]
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However, this will be a hassle, to put it mildly. If Democrats decide to do a new reconciliation bill—that is, separate from the reconciliation bill they are currently writing, which includes a flock of Democratic agenda items (more on that later)—that will involve several time-consuming procedural steps, including two vote-a-ramas: marathon amendment voting sessions that […]
Read MoreIf Boris Johnson had a little more self-awareness he might have reshuffled himself last week. The trip to the United Nations general assembly in New York was supposed to be the fun part of the job. A chance for the prime minister to do the things he likes best – rubbing shoulders and making crap […]
Read MoreOn Boris Johnson’s first trip to meet Joe Biden in Washington, the prime minister was on a charm offensive as he attempts to nurture the special relationship despite their political differences. Biden has been sceptical about Johnson, partly because of the prime minister’s comments from 2016 claiming that Barack Obama had a bust of Churchill […]
Read MoreLabour has named its two new shadow women and equalities ministers, after facing difficulties trying to replace the previous team amid a row over the rights of people who identify as transgender. The party chair, Anneliese Dodds, has become the new shadow secretary of state for women and equalities, with the Coventry North West MP […]
Read MoreThe US businesswoman Jennifer Arcuri has claimed that officials in Boris Johnson’s office knew he had “crush” on her when he was mayor of London. Arcuri also claimed that the mayor was aware she going on international trade missions approved by his promotional agency, London & Partners (L&P), despite claims from Johnson’s lawyers that he […]
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In 2016, Meicen Sun came to a profound realization: “The control of digital information will lie at the heart of all the big questions and big contentions in politics.” A graduate student in her final year of study who is specializing in international security and the political economy of technology, Sun vividly recalls the emergence […]
Read MoreIt is hardly surprising that Rupert Murdoch, having surveyed the ramshackle, amateurish beginnings of GB News from his Oxfordshire estate, decided he could do better. His talkTV station, featuring Piers Morgan as a lead presenter, and to be available on regular television platforms including Freeview from early next year, is likely to be a much more […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Tamika Mallory on Instagram Live on Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2021. | Source: Instagram / Instagram.com/tamikadmallory Tamika Mallory delivered a veritable sermon Tuesday morning responding to the devastating images of Border Patrol agents appearing to use whips from horseback in order to corral Haitian migrants attempting to cross into the U.S. from Mexico. […]
Read MorePresident Biden’s terrible August has given way to a miserable September. The Des Moines Register reports today that just 31 percent of Iowans approve of his job performance, down from a high of 47 percent in March. Iowa isn’t quite the swing state it used to be — its voters supported Donald Trump the last […]
Read MoreThe BBC’s director general has embraced the idea of requiring broadcasters to produce “distinctly British” content, after losing British talent to deep-pocketed streaming services. The likes of Netflix have invested enormous sums in producing UK-based programmes and hiring British creatives but their shows usually need to appeal to an international audience. This can often result […]
Read MoreSix government departments have between them spent at least half a million pounds over the past four years trying to block information being released under the Freedom of Information (FoI) Act. They include the Department of Health and Social Care, which spent more than £129,000 in one case trying to stop the release of ministerial […]
Read MoreAngela Merkel is used to being unimpressed by British prime ministers. She was appalled by David Cameron’s casual surrender of influence in Europe, all to placate fringe elements in his party. She was stunned, on first sitting down with Theresa May, to discover that there was no plan and no substance behind the “Brexit means […]
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