5th January 2022

The Guardian's Martin Kettle rightly describes government division, and wrongly characterises Brexit and concerns over immigration.

The former Greek finance minister and professor of Economics attacks new UK prime minister Liz Truss's plans, seeing them as a continuation of forty years of error.

Jenkins argues for reforms to make the housing market less dysfunctional, and so advance the levelling up agenda. I suggest that the real solution is far more radical, and far less politically acceptable, than he thinks.

On a personal note; law, politics and the citizen. Welfare, and the universal basic income. Tattoos.

The Gray Report on Downing Street parties. Challenges to Johnson. The Ukraine situation. Neil Young, Joe Rogan and Spotify. Gender, the Scottish Government and the EHRC.

The Covid crisis and the NHS. The acquittal of the "Colston Four". Glasgow's un-gritted roads. Poor health in the second city of the empire.

Is Kier Starmer a socialist? Prince Andrew and Giuffre. Scotland's defence lawyers have had enough. Scotland's ferries, and public provision generally.

Rather than look at one Guardian article I've taken a look at the stories making the headlines today.

Behr suggests that Johnson's EU "cakeism" - having two mutually incompatible things - has infected other policy areas, and the attitudes of the wider party.

Liberty's director - a human rights lawyer - condemns the government's proposed changes to the powers of the courts, and to the uses that may be made of the Human Rights Act.