Facts first. Parties second.
9 articles
NHS
County Durham and Darlington Foundation Trust review identifies 20 unnecessary mastectomies among 514 cases, with outsourcing to private clinics creating conflicts and harming 315 patients.
Westminster
Free drinks during legislative hours persist despite hospital incidents and documented behaviour problems in Westminster.
prime minister
An unelected leader begins national governance from Manchester while the civil service and ministerial machinery stay in London.
prime ministers
Frequent leadership changes have produced no reversal in living standards, service capacity or regional cohesion across successive governments.
Labour Party
Starmer's team tracks internal challengers while defence reviews, energy bill aid and multiple structural reforms remain stalled.
Politics
While millions of Londoners face another week of transport chaos, tube drivers earning £71,000 are demanding shorter working weeks. The capital's entire underground network will grind to a halt for four days because 57% of RMT members voted to strike over their 35-hour week being too long.
Environment
87% of Welsh voters support pollution action that institutions claim to be taking, yet waterways continue failing. The gap between public will, official process, and actual outcomes reveals how UK governance produces non-functioning results through functioning bureaucracy.
London
London's disorder is not only a failure of governance but also deliberate policy choice by Britain's institutional classes to redefine normalcy downward. From rampant fare evasion to the normalization of drug dealing, the managed decline of public order serves powerful interests while leaving citizens to bear the costs.
Assisted Dying
On a Friday afternoon in Westminster, 605 MPs decided the state should help terminally ill citizens die. What they didn't decide—because they couldn't—was how, when, or who would pay for it. This gap between legislative ambition and implementation reality reveals everything about how modern Britain actually functions.