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Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Home Secretary Suella Braverman, April 3, 2023
THE Tories anticipate a defeat deeper than any suffered for decades.
This party regards itself as the natural party of government but as squabbling tribes of Tories — each less representative of either public opinion or even the settled positions of the ruling class itself — scrabble for purchase on the public psyche, the scum naturally floats to the top.
Into this category we can consign Suella Braverman’s suggestion that multiculturalism has failed. How the son of an Indian pharmacist gets to be prime minister suggests some routes to integration into one or other of Britain’s contending classes are open to the lucky, the endowed or the enabled.
The HS2 debacle exposes what happens when public infrastructure is handed to private contractors – especially when set against China’s state-led high-speed rail success, says CARLOS MARTINEZ
Our housing crisis isn’t an accident – it’s class war, trapping millions in poverty while landlords and billionaires profit. To solve it, we need comprehensive transformation, not mere tokenistic reform, writes BECK ROBERTSON
US General Stanley McChrystal has been invited to advise on creating a ‘team of teams’ for healthcare transformation. His credentials? He previously ran interrogation bases where Iraqis were stripped naked and beaten, reports SOLOMON HUGHES