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It’s the UK government’s flagship policy – but does anyone know what it means?
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Britain is ‘opening up’ after months of COVID-19 restrictions. But it could also be opening itself up to court action for breaching international human rights laws.
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The “Freedom Day” rhetoric around the end of COVID-19 restrictions can be best understood through the lens of propaganda.
Bone of contention: plans for an Irish sea border are deeply unpopular.
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There’s little good faith left in the UK government’s handling of the Northern Ireland protocol
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Ending lockdown on July 19 will be the biggest gamble of Johnson’s political career.
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With Britain keen to make post-Brexit deals, New Zealand can expect favourable terms from a trade agreement – anything less will be a failure.
The UK’s secretary of state for international trade, Liz Truss chairs a CPTPP head of mission roundtable, July 2020.
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The CPTPP probably won’t invigorate post-Brexit Britain economically, and it could even be dangerous, geopolitically speaking.
Walls come tumbling down: Lib Dem leader Ed Davey celebrates his party’s victory in the Chesham and Amersham by-election, June 2021.
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The gradual waning of the ‘vaccine boost’ combined with tactical progressive voting and local issues to sink the Conservatives in a ‘blue wall’ seat.
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University of Canberra Professorial Fellow Michelle Grattan and University of Canberra Associate Professor Caroline Fisher discuss the week in politics.
Boris Johnson arrives at the 2019 G7 Summit in France.
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Research shows people don’t take politicians seriously on climate change if they don’t seem fully committed.
The closed O2 Institute in Digbeth, Birmingham, which was due to re-open on 25 June, 2021.
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The restrictions that have hurt the live scene will remain for a little while longer, following Boris Johnson’s announcement
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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson put Scott Morrison on the spot when he told their joint news conference he thought the Australian PM had “declared for net zero by 2050”
Boris Johnson is attempting to move from zero to hero on climate change.
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G7’s Build Back Better World initiative is designed to finance climate infrastructure projects in developing countries.
Boris Johnson and Joe Biden signed a New Atlantic Charter, an echo of the Roosevelt-Churchill meeting 80 years earlier.
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Eighty years after Churchill and Roosevelt established the Atlantic Charter, Biden and Johnson have pressed the ‘reset’ button.
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Multiple post-Brexit pressures make the prime minister eager to please.
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The former adviser’s seven-hour evidence session is full of strong lines to follow when the public inquiry into the pandemic response gets underway.
Boris Johnson addresses his party at the 2019 annual conference.
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Comments by Boris Johnson about Muslim women were considered ‘insensitive’ but not Islamophobic.
Protesters in Michigan, USA, come out in support of LGBT+ rights.
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Is it even possible to respect faith leaders’ desires to uphold the harmful practice while outlawing it?
Lord Brougham as John Bull, calling on the Prince Regent (later George IV) to curb his extravagance.
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The excesses of political leaders have always needed checking.
Nicola Sturgeon thinks she’s found the exit.
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Nicola Sturgeon wants Scotland out, Boris Johnson hopes to hold it all together and Mark Drakeford believes in the best of both worlds.