Liz Truss May Freeze Energy Bills
Despite spending much of the leadership campaign denouncing Sunak’s “handout” schemes and proposing generous tax cuts instead, now in government Truss seems to have U-turned.
Despite spending much of the leadership campaign denouncing Sunak’s “handout” schemes and proposing generous tax cuts instead, now in government Truss seems to have U-turned.
Apart from vastly increasing the executive’s power, the proposed reform would have enshrined ideological assumptions around gender and sexuality and the green energy transition. In the end, 62% of Chilean voters voted against it.
“The world is full of devouring wolves, and you, unfaithful dog, know not how to bark.”
Warlikowski’s productions tend toward the visceral. His exploration of the opera’s mythological content led him to profound meditations on the fluidity of space and time, of the real and the unreal.
The debate over the Order of Malta’s status as a “subject of the Holy See” is not new, but Pope Francis’ reforms have caused anxiety for those who understand what is at stake in the Order’s loss of sovereignty.
One of Germany’s largest nitrogen plants, responsible for producing fertilizer and AdBlue supplements for trucks, has halted production, putting crops and supply chains at severe risk.
The parliament was called in for an extraordinary session because the prime minister’s measure would make the government a co-signer for new lines of credit from private financial institutions for energy companies.
The number of troops on the ground is much lower than in the previous 2018 exercise. But the symbolic significance of this event is quite different. It is an explicit display of the Sino-Russian alliance on the international stage.
A group of nine countries, including the Netherlands, Sweden, Belgium and Denmark, already warned the EU that it was going too far.
Truss faces multiple political challenges from the outset, not least of which is to unite a Conservative party still scarred by the toppling of its most successful leader in decades, not to mention the less-than-amicable leadership contest which followed.
Polling shows a strong advantage for a “No” vote on Boric’s proposed constitutional change.
Euro zone inflation, which peaked at 9.1% in August, has reached its highest point since the introduction of the euro in 1999. Amidst fears of entrenchment, the ECB is preparing a major hike in interest rates that may also slow down the economy.
In the arena of the culture war, ideas become political brands, stitched into the terrible body of the news cycle, until they share in that sickly bloodstream. Instead of building civic participation, they get their oxygen from media attention.
While distinguishing between good and bad taste undoubtedly smells like an elitist activity, the conditions that Hume attaches to it do not, at first glance, seem to be.