Sunday 19 July

As this lengthy heatwave begins to abate there’s been no matching slowdown in the febrile news agenda despite the imminence of what used to be called the Silly Season. It was always clear that the US ceasefire with Iran wouldn’t last, partly because the deal was breached from the start by Netanyahu continuing to attackContinue reading “Sunday 19 July”

Saturday 13 February

As the latest estimate of excess deaths since the start of the pandemic passes 120,000, four main issues have continued to dominate the news this week, none of them inspiring confidence in how they’re being managed. At the start of the week a number of newspapers and websites headlined fury with Michael Gove, amid plungingContinue reading “Saturday 13 February”