Martin Parsons: As the Four-Hundredth Anniversary of the Mayflower Approaches, Has the UK Forgotten Its Significance?
"Surely there should be a national celebration of this momentous event!"
"Surely there should be a national celebration of this momentous event!"
"Why are the nations in an uproar and the peoples devising a vain thing?"
"Official statistics released last week reveal that abortions in England and Wales in 2019 were recorded at 207,384 among residents – the highest number ever since abortion was legalised in 1968."
"An ecosystem as intricate and evolved as ours," argues Sonia Friedman, "is beyond price. It cannot be rebuilt from scratch."
"Know your rights and know that you can make a difference in your child’s education!"
"The UK fishing industry is hugely disadvantaged by the current allocation of catches in the UK’s territorial waters."
"For some strange reason, a riot in the heart of Central London, and the daylong assaults on and abuse of British police officers, is not considered newsworthy by the BBC."
"Remorseless media focus on Dominic Cummings has been given impetus by Tory MPs who have added their voices to the call for Cummings to be sacked, some of whom may owe their seats to his work."
"...if you want a really clear example of how this plays out, look at Hertz. Bust."
Cummings took his course of action because his child would be left without childcare if he and his wife fell ill.
"Here we have an influential member of the British media abusing one of Britain’s most watched television channels to promote his own political beliefs and censor those he disagrees with."
"Australia faced this a few years ago. They dealt with it."
"A seroepidemiological meanwhile has revealed that 17% of the population of London, and around 5% of the general population has already contracted the virus."
"... reports are surfacing of a pediatric inflammatory syndrome that many are rushing to blame on COVID-19. New York State has attributed the deaths of up to five children to the mystery ailment that, in some cases, has resulted in multisystem organ failure."
"... if you work but can’t work from home, you should speak to your employer about going back in."
"Taking the “level playing field” agenda as a whole therefore, we can see how dangerously broad and elastic the concept can be."
"Biblical morality went out, and in came manmade morality, ... ideologies ... designed to produce a kind of perfect world."
"... everyone may ... get ... those funny ideas the Brits had in 2016."
"Ought we therefore to consider a programme of reindustrialisation at least to get us some of the way back to where we used to be?"
"The Prime Minister is being deputised by the Secretary of State Dominic Raab."
"It is quite shocking that the new German president of the European Commission calls for zero dumping, when her own country is one of the world’s biggest dumpers of goods onto world markets."
"What are the implications for the UK and Ireland of Sinn Fein’s gains in the Irish elections?"
The trade talks are the first item on our agenda as a fully independent country, and here are the reasons why they are likely to be successful.
The UK in Johnson’s deal has agreed to an exit bill of c. £39 billion – and quite possibly significantly more. There is no link between the payment of this and agreeing a free trade deal