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- The Week in UK Politics #42
Overseas: Movement Without Leverage The Prime Minister’s trip to China and Japan was notable less for what it achieved than for what it avoided. Keir Starmer returned with modest diplomatic housekeeping: limited visa facilitation and the reopening of channels with… Read more: The Week in UK Politics #42 - The Commons Weekly #1
The Commons Weekly… …is going to be a new concise political briefing that breaks down the most important developments in the House of Commons each week. I hope that it will provide readers with an accessible overview of parliamentary debates,… Read more: The Commons Weekly #1 - The Week in UK Politics #41
Children, Screens and State Strategy This week Westminster shifted its attention decisively from abstract debates about the future of technology to a policy question: what role should the state play in regulating children’s use of mobile phones and social media?… Read more: The Week in UK Politics #41 - The Week in UK Politics #40
AI scandals, Trump theatrics and social media bans Welcome back after a small essay-related delay this week. British politics served up a curious mix of local embarrassment, international showmanship, and domestic debate that looks suspiciously as though we are collectively… Read more: The Week in UK Politics #40 - The Week in UK Politics #39
REVOLUTIONS, INVASIONS AND POTHOLES It is a salutary experience to sit down to write a review of UK politics at the end of a week in which Donald Trump threatened to intervene in Iran’s brutal protest crackdown, the United States… Read more: The Week in UK Politics #39 - The Week in UK Politics #38
Screens, Soldiers and Superpowers (in no particular order.) Australia’s world-first social media ban for under-16s On 10th December 2025, Australia’s Online Safety Amendment (Social Media Minimum Age) Act came into force, making it illegal for under-16s to hold accounts on… Read more: The Week in UK Politics #38 - UK YOUTH POLITICS 2025
UK Politics 2025, but for Young People (apparently.) Child benefit cap removal, VAT on private schools, voting at 16 and rejoining Erasmus+ suggest that Westminster might have noticed that the votes of a currently unenfranchised generation will vote in 2029… Read more: UK YOUTH POLITICS 2025 - Christmas Cheer
FREE THE CHRISTMAS FIVE! It is rare for the US Department of State to amuse the rest of the world for Christmas, but in 2025 they unveiled the funniest Doublespeak announcement ever. It currently leads the all-time entries for the… Read more: Christmas Cheer - The Week in UK Politics #37
ERASMUS RETURN, NHS STRIKES, UNION TENSIONS. The government agreed a deal for the UK to rejoin the EU’s Erasmus+ student exchange programme from the 2027/28 academic year. The UK’s will pay £570 million for that first year or involvement, almost… Read more: The Week in UK Politics #37 - Recipe Britanniam!
THE UK WILL REJOIN THE EU’S ERASMUS+ SCHEME which supports undergraduate students to undertake international internships from 2 months to a full academic year across the EU and other member states (now including the UK again!) The agreement covers, at… Read more: Recipe Britanniam!
