Biden’s Higher Ed Opportunity
I’d bet a lot against Biden doing anything so sensible as to lower the demand for college credentials, but who knows. Originally found on National Review Read More
Karen Bradley: Taking back lost time. Should MPs control the House of Commons agenda?
Karen Bradley is MP for Staffordshire Moorlands and Chair of the House of Commons Procedure Committee, which continues its inquiry into Commons’ Coronavirus procedures next week. Find out more here. Earlier this week, experts at University College London’s Constitution Unit published a major new report on the House of Commons, titled Taking back control: why…
Newslinks for Friday 22nd January 2021
Coronavirus 1) GBP500 payments for those who self-isolate “Everyone in England who tests positive for coronavirus could be given GBP500 to ensure they self-isolate under plans to stop hardship spreading the virus. Ministers are trying to solve a problem that scientific advisers have long said is an obstacle to controlling the virus. Paying all those…
Iain Dale: 400,000 police records have gone. In the Blair years, home secretaries were forced to resign over less.
Iain Dale presents the evening show on LBC Radio and the For the Many podcast with Jacqui Smith. Wednesday really did seem a Ground Zero or reset day in the United States. Donald Trump departed much more quietly than I thought he might, and apparently even left Joe Biden a nice letter on the desk…
‘Uncle Tom’ Blacklisted by Hollywood
Actor Ben Affleck once explained why he found it difficult to watch Republican actors on screen. “It’s … hard,” explained Affleck, “to get people to suspend disbelief. … When I watch a guy I know is a big Republican, part of me thinks, I probably wouldn’t like this person if I met him, or we…
Alan Dershowitz Makes an Unpersuasive Argument against Late Impeachment Trials
Dershowitz’s reasoning about the Constitution falls well short of establishing what he thinks it does. Originally found on National Review Read More
Fourteenth Amendment Worries Should Not Stop Republican Senators from Convicting Trump
A response to Andy McCarthy and Dan McLaughlin Originally found on National Review Read More
Biden’s COVID Cynicism
He is letting self-serving politics warp his anti-COVID strategy at a very basic level. Originally found on National Review Read More
Democrat Gamesmanship on the House Impeachment Article
If there has to be a trial, then force the Democrats’ hand, get on with it, and get it over with. Originally found on National Review Read More