Sometimes, it’s hard for a newly married prime minister to feel the love
Boris Johnson, Britain’s prime minister is recently married, a new dad and has impressive public approval numbers.
But his own party seems to be increasingly out of love with him.
Britain woke to a bright beautiful June day with a promised political squall as members of parliament from Mr Johnson’s Conservative Party sought to rebel against their government.
They’re protesting against Mr Johnson’s plans to cut foreign-aid spending by £4 billion. The Conservative Party’s 2019 election manifesto had committing to spending 0.7 per cent of Britain’s GDP on aid. This helped win over socially liberal voters. …
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/ LANGUAGE
Here’s a quite remarkable story. In India, a 32-year-old man posted a pro-Palestine image and a comment on his Facebook page. It resulted in his arrest by the police. Oh, and the man’s name: Yasser Arafat.
I kid you not. This is not a cheesy story but a true, and truly tragic tale about the limits imposed on language and thought.
It also, incidentally, reveals what it means to be a member of the minority Muslim community in India today and how difficult it is to express an opinion that goes against that of the loud, pro-Israeli, muscular…
/IT’S THE BUSINESS
/ POLITICS & AMERICA
/ TRAVELS IN MY MIND
On Bank Holiday weekend, Britain woke to the news that its prime minister had made an honest woman of Carrie Symonds.
Or, for those who bristle at the imputation that an adult woman needs to be made whole and honest in some way merely because she lives with someone, on Saturday, May 29, Carrie Symonds made an honest man of Boris Johnson.
Ah, but there’s the catch. Would the mere act of getting married make an honest man of Boris Johnson?
He has been married twice before and it seems to have had no effect…
On May 26, three of the world’s biggest oil companies — Shell, Exxon and Chevron — suffered separate blows that illustrated the speed at which mindsets are changing.
Shareholder are talking about climate change.
Investors are anxious about green energy.
And courts are saying someone’s got to do something about the way we’re polluting the planet.
It’s entirely in order to be hopeful we’re seeing the end of the old order. …
Rashmee Roshan Lall
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