One survey for the Sunday Times on 13 June asked this question of participants: “Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? The government could save billions of pounds by eliminating unnecessary ‘non-jobs’ in the public sector.” Perhaps unsurprisingly, 85 percent of those polled agreed, no doubt to the joy of the Con-Dem cutters.
In that spirit, here is my own question: YouGov founder and CEO, Stephan Shakespeare, is an ex Tory election candidate and owner of the ConservativeHome website. Could that potentially lead to a lack of neutrality?
On 4 November last year, when many of us were watching the aftermath of the American presidential election, the US formally left the Paris Climate Agreement. Written in 2015 at the United Nations’ COP21 climate conference in Paris, the agreement is often considered to be the most significant document of international climate cooperation. Back then,...
To say 2020 was dramatic would be an understatement. The world situation has been completely transformed by the Covid-19 pandemic and the inadequacy of governmental and state responses. As we head into 2021 it feels like we are entering uncharted territory. To make specific predictions would be unwise. But the Covid-19 crisis raises fundamental questions...
The 2020 crisis we’ve endured isn’t an aberration of the system but, as Alex Callinicos argues, an aspect of its permanent crisis.
China’s rulers have, for the past four decades, sought to increase the country’s global role, particularly via their Belt and Road Initiative. Simon Gilbert reviews three recently published books on the repercussions of these policies, while Adrian Budd considers a study of US/Chinese tensions.
