British prison reform will release convicts after serving 40% of term to combat overcrowding: reports
Britain’s new Labour government has announced it may release prisoners who have served 40% of their sentences as a way to ease overcrowding in prisons across the country. “The guilty parties of the previous regime have left prisons on the brink of collapse,” UK Justice Minister Shabana Mahmood wrote on social media platform X. “They […]
Nigel Farage MP and Reform Colleagues Sworn Into Parliament
Nigel Farage’s election as MP for Clacton in last week’s general election was a matter of red tape. Nigel Farage and the four Reform Party election winners were sworn in this week to the House of Commons, the lower house of Britain’s bicameral parliament. Farage was one of the last of the new MPs to […]
Reform Rejects Merger With Yesterday’s Men Tories
Opinion polls suggest many Conservative supporters are considering merging their party with Reform, but Farage’s growing coalition has dismissed the idea with scorn, saying it is focused on future elections. Reform UK Party leader Richard Tice, newly elected along with four of his colleagues, appeared in good spirits when he appeared on British morning TV […]
Almost half Tory members want merger with Reform UK, poll suggests, as leadership infighting escalates – UK politics live | Politics
good morning. Keir Starmer I will be in Washington to attend the NATO summit and make my debut on the world stage as prime minister. This will be a major diplomatic moment and a major policy challenge. My colleagues Pippa Crerar She was accompanied by reporters and, as reported in a feature in the Guardian, […]
Reform UK Team Arrive in Westminster
Nigel Farage made history on Tuesday when he entered Parliament as leader of Reform UK’s newly elected group of five MPs, 30 years after he first contested a British election. The House of Commons will elect a speaker and then swear in new MPs on Tuesday afternoon, convening for the first time since last week’s […]
Reform UK Leader Tice Calls for ‘Complete Realignment” of the Right
With the Conservative party facing a likely devastating election blow, a “complete realignment” of the right is needed to fix Britain’s political landscape, Reform Party chairman Richard Tice said on Tuesday. Speaking about the future on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, Mr Tice said there was “a complete realignment of the right of politics” and […]
TikTok pulls the plug on the live stream of Reform UK’s rally, says it was a ‘moderation error’
A Reform Party rally at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham, England, which was scheduled to feature prominent figures including Reform Party leader Nigel Farage and Ann Widdecombe, was interrupted on Sunday when TikTok suddenly shut down the live stream. Reclaiming the Internet. A TikTok spokesperson said the outage lasted about 30 minutes and was […]
Will ESG Reform Capitalism—or Destroy It?
Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes What “stakeholder capitalism” really means for the world. Stakeholder capitalism has taken the global economy by storm in recent years. Its champions proclaim that it will save—and remake—the world. Will it live up to its hype or will it destroy capitalism in the name of reforming it? Proponents pitch […]
Florida Reform Slashes Free Healthcare Spending on Migrants
In Florida, medical costs for illegal immigrants were nearly cut in half after a law requiring hospitals to track unpaid care provided to them. Senate Bill 1718, Signed The bill, proposed by Governor Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.), goes into effect in July 2023, and almost a year after it was enacted, the results have been startling. […]
Tillis pushes back on conservatives’ bid for GOP rules reform
Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), an adviser to Senate Republican leadership, circulated a letter to his colleagues opposing conservative senators’ efforts to change the Republican conference rules to take power away from GOP leaders. Senate conservatives, led by Sens. Mike Lee (R-Utah), Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), Rick Scott (R-Fla.) and Ted Cruz (R-Texas), want to take advantage […]