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The Definitive Guide to Boris Johnson's Buses, Bridges and Boreholes Under the Irish Sea
The Definitive Guide to Boris Johnson's Buses, Bridges and Boreholes Under the Irish Sea
Political parties
By Robert Hutton
His cable-car crossing was the most expensive ever built, and his ‘Boris Bikes’ made it into the Oxford dictionary. With proposals on the table for a ‘Boris Burrow’ to connect Scotland and Northern Ireland, Robert Hutton explores Johnson’s quest to secure a lasting legacy.
Tribute to Prince Philip by Lord Robertson
Social affairs
By Lord Robertson
Tribute to Prince Philip by Lord Robertson
Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle pays tribute to Prince Philip
Social affairs
By Sir Lindsay Hoyle MP
Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle pays tribute to Prince Philip
The Integrated Review offers a hint into the UK’s future priorities
Brexit
By Nabil Rastani
The Integrated Review offers a hint into the UK’s future priorities
Women in Northern Ireland still need help to access safe abortion
Coronavirus
By Dr Laura McLaughlin
Women in Northern Ireland still need help to access safe abortion
The UK’s “broken” asylum system is the Home Office’s own doing – Priti Patel’s cruel reforms punish the wrong people
Home affairs
By Lord Dubs
The UK’s “broken” asylum system is the Home Office’s own doing – Priti Patel’s cruel reforms punish the wrong people
The pandemic has shown that funeral and death care staff are essential workers too
Coronavirus
By Rosie Cooper MP
The pandemic has shown that funeral and death care staff are essential workers too
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The UK’s “broken” asylum system is the Home Office’s own doing – Priti Patel’s cruel reforms punish the wrong people
The UK’s “broken” asylum system is the Home Office’s own doing – Priti Patel’s cruel reforms punish the wrong people
By Lord Dubs
Home affairs
Women in Northern Ireland still need help to access safe abortion
Women in Northern Ireland still need help to access safe abortion
By Dr Laura McLaughlin
Coronavirus
Tribute to Prince Philip by Lord Robertson
Tribute to Prince Philip by Lord Robertson
By Lord Robertson
Social affairs
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Former Northern Ireland Secretary Accuses Government Of 'Casual Indifference' After A Week Of Violence
Brexit
Former Northern Ireland Secretary Accuses Government Of "Casual Indifference" After A Week Of Violence
How The New ‘Traffic Light’ Travel System Will Work And What It Will Mean For Holidays
Coronavirus
How The New ‘Traffic Light’ Travel System Will Work And What It Will Mean For Holidays
Lord Michael Howard pays tribute to Prince Philip
Political parties
By Lord Howard
Lord Michael Howard pays tribute to Prince Philip
The UK Has Entered A Period Of National Mourning, This Is What It Means
Home affairs
The UK Has Entered A Period Of National Mourning, This Is What It Means
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As the threat changes so must we. The Integrated Review will ensure our Armed Forces are fit for the future
Defence
By Baroness Goldie
As the threat changes so must we. The Integrated Review will ensure our Armed Forces are fit for the future
By transforming defence we will guarantee that resilience remains our watchword in the years ahead
Smart motorways: essential infrastructure or needlessly dangerous?
Transport
By Georgina Bailey and Kate Proctor
Smart motorways: essential infrastructure or needlessly dangerous?
Campaigners are calling for smart motorways to be scrapped. They argue that converting the hard shoulder into a normal traffic lane has led to multiple deaths. But Highways England insists they are safe and it’s just a case of improving public awareness. Georgina Bailey and Kate Proctor report
The pandemic has exacerbated the horrors of period poverty; the free period products scheme must be made mandatory
Social affairs
By Amika George
The pandemic has exacerbated the horrors of period poverty; the free period products scheme must be made mandatory
By making the Free Periods scheme mandatory, we can ensure that period poverty is consigned to history and no child will ever be touched by its injustice.
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Cutting air passenger duty shows the government is going backwards on climate action
Environment
By Caroline Lucas MP
Cutting air passenger duty shows the government is going backwards on climate action
Rather than making flying even cheaper, ministers should get on with the job of investing in a green economy that will provide sustainable jobs for the future
This government has a moral duty to help the widows of the Covid-19 pandemic
Coronavirus
By Lord Loomba
This government has a moral duty to help the widows of the Covid-19 pandemic
As a child I witnessed first-hand the poverty and suffering my mother faced as a widow. The government must set up a Covid-19 widows support group to provide financial and practical assistance – and help them overcome their loss
The inevitability of HS2 does not mean it is a British success story
Environment
By Michael Fabricant MP
The inevitability of HS2 does not mean it is a British success story
There are many arguments which have been presented against HS2: is cost, its damage to the environment, its inability to connect effectively to the rest of the transport network, and whether – in the light of Covid and changing work patterns – it is needed at all.
Our rail network is decades behind target in providing access to disabled people
Transport
By Baroness Grey-Thompson
Our rail network is decades behind target in providing access to disabled people
The Inclusive Transport Strategy must remove barriers which prevent many disabled people from travelling to work using affordable public transport.
Scrapping HS2’s eastern leg would be a betrayal of the communities there
Communities
By Lilian Greenwood MP
Scrapping HS2’s eastern leg would be a betrayal of the communities there
Eastern leg regions are home to 23 per cent of England’s population but 42 per cent of its social deprivation cold spots: as we look beyond the pandemic, we must ensure HS2 in delivered in full to bring opportunities to left behind areas
The race to jet zero - is emission-free transatlantic air travel really possible?
Environment
By Kate Proctor
The race to jet zero - is emission-free transatlantic air travel really possible?
Like his garden bridges and sub-sea tunnels, announcing the UK was going to pioneer the first emission-free transatlantic aircraft had the hallmarks of what critics describe as one of Boris Johnson’s vanity projects. It was an ambitious and typically eye-catching promise, delivered in the brief lull in the coronavirus pandemic last July.
Tech companies must clean up the digital Dodge City by tackling anonymous internet trolls
Health
By Siobhan Baillie MP
Tech companies must clean up the digital Dodge City by tackling anonymous internet trolls
The tragic death of Sarah Everard has rightly put safety in our towns and cities front and centre of a big societal debate and we want action to be taken. But people face danger and harassment, not only in the physical world, but on the dark cyber streets and alleyways of the internet, and particularly from anonymous accounts on social media.
Jim McMahon: ‘My community can’t wait 20 years for the green revolution’
Coronavirus
By Adam Payne
Jim McMahon: ‘My community can’t wait 20 years for the green revolution’
Labour’s shadow transport secretary talks to Adam Payne about Boris Johnson being like ‘a kid with a train set’ and why the government’s National Bus Strategy ‘doesn’t even touch the sides’
Grant Shapps: A bridge from Scotland to Northern Ireland isn't 'the slightest bit controversial'
Coronavirus
By Kate Proctor
Grant Shapps: A bridge from Scotland to Northern Ireland isn't "the slightest bit controversial"
In the gloom of the pandemic, transport secretary and occasional aviator Grant Shapps exudes optimism about the future. He tells Kate Proctor the Scotland to Northern Ireland sea link is a no-brainer, new bus services will be “amazing” and his favourite road – the A66 – is getting a £1bn upgrade. The only thing he sounds nervous about is his next time in the cockpit
Lord Fowler: 'Aids has never been a popular cause'
Coronavirus
By Sally Dawson
Lord Fowler: 'Aids has never been a popular cause'
He’s been in parliament more than half a century but never had complete freedom of expression. Lord Fowler, the outgoing Lords Speaker, tells Sally Dawson why he can’t wait to speak his mind
We need to raise better boys and men to prevent stranger murders of women
Home affairs
By Baroness Bertin
We need to raise better boys and men to prevent stranger murders of women
The debate must move on from what women and victims could do differently, to how we stop violent men from reoffending time and again.
Lord Diary: Natalie Bennett
Political parties
By Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle
Lord Diary: Natalie Bennett
Baroness Bennett on a "dizzy" week of finance reform, feminist foreign policy, the smacking ban, and forest bathing
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