The nurse said, ‘Try getting some sleep.’‘I don’t need any sleep.’‘You don’t, but it’s easier to run a hospital with all the patients sleeping.’ The… Read More »Mapping dystopias from the airship of urban nightmares: 2024, via 1968

The drama surrounding the government funding deadline escalated Thursday when President-elect Donald Trump attacked Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas. The shocking development came as Trump insisted… Read More »Explaining the Beef Between Donald Trump and Chip Roy

Muiris MacCarthaigh is Professor of Politics and Public Policy and Director of the Centre for Public Policy and Administration at Queen’s University Belfast. This blog… Read More »Ministerial portfolio changes adding to policy pressures

Alex Richardson is a Ph.D. candidate at the School of Religion, Trinity College Dublin whose research focuses on novel forms of multi-gendered, intersectional peacebuilding. On… Read More »Queering Peacebuilding: Reflections on the Women, Peace, and Security Toolkit Workshop

Refugees faced move-on periods that were too short to do basic things like open a bank account and find housing. Will the new 56-day move-on… Read More »Home Office move-on period: Refugees and charities ‘relieved’, but extension must be permanent

Labour’s stance on puberty blockers has sparked a row in the party, with the party’s LGBT+ group expressing “deep concerns” at the move to permanently… Read More »NHS puberty blockers ban: Fresh party trans row as LGBT+ Labour sounds alarm – LabourList

Around a month ago I wrote a piece highlighting what I argued to be the ‘Realpolitik of the Windsor Framework’. The vast majority of Unionist… Read More »Right of Reply

Rue Grewal is a Three Rivers District Councillor and Deputy Chair of Hertfordshire Conservatives Area Management Executive As I care for my wonderful, 89-year-old dad—grappling daily… Read More »Rue Grewal: Why don’t we care enough for those who care for family with dementia? | Conservative Home

Given current events in Syria, I thought it might be a good idea to post Brooks Newmark’s essay from THE DICTATORS here. Brooks actually met… Read More »From ‘THE DICTATORS: The Real Bashar Al Assad by Brooks Newmark

Now that Tulsi Gabbard has returned to her natural home in the party of Putin-lovin’ suck-ups and earned a Cabinet nomination out of the switch,… Read More »California Dem Ro Khanna Wants To Be Elon Musk’s Best Friend