14th January 2024
Rishi Sunak tries to cling to power by making a change to his cabinet- but will it just be more of the same? As Rishi Sunak enters what is possibly his last year as Prime Minister, the recent appointment of David Cameron to the role of Foreign Secretary appears to be a desperate grasp at ...
19th November 2023
New Environment Secretary Steve Barclay faces a controversial issue as he takes on his new brief At the end of September, the North Sea Transition Authority, a government agency that regulates the UK oil and gas industry, issued its approval for drilling at one of the largest North Sea oil and gas extraction projects of ...
11th October 2023
Rishi Sunak is trying desperately to cling to power as he resorts to distraction tactics over XL Bully dogs. “Danger to our communities, particularly to our children” said Rishi Sunak in a social media video that circulated recently, and surprisingly, just this once, he wasn’t talking about refugees arriving on small boats (though his language ...
2nd October 2023
With Rishi Sunak announcing a proposed cap on students entering “low-value” degrees, his classism shines through once again Rishi Sunak’s recent proposal to crack down on ‘Mickey Mouse’ degrees by capping their intake of students based on the “value for money” of the course, has got many discussing the role of university as a place ...
7th September 2023
Neither state-corporatism nor individual efforts can replace meaningful, evidence-led legislation Rishi Sunak could not be more committed to oil. In July, he announced his hope to extract as much of it from the North Sea as possible – a ‘maxing out’ policy. This involves granting over a hundred new drilling licenses, and likely many more ...
29th November 2022
Views Columnist Ellie discusses negative public perceptions of the new Prime Minister. When I think of a Prime Minister, I picture Hugh Grant’s David in Love Actually. The charming and likeable Prime Minister who danced down the stairs to Jump (For My Love) by the Pointer Sisters, stood up to the President, and who loves ...
23rd November 2022
The Glasgow Guardian critically examines what the UK’s latest Prime Minister Rishi Sunak means for the future of the country. After only 44 days in office, Liz Truss became the shortest serving prime minister (PM) and second Conservative prime minister to resign in a matter of months. Her replacement Rishi Sunak, who lost out on ...
