‘Nudging’ is the gentle way of pushing you towards making good choices; think of your nice parents. ‘Sludging’ is the opposite, designed to encourage you to make bad or at least suboptimal decisions; picture the car/insurance/mobile phone/real estate salesmen. They are terms in pop psychology borrowed from behavioural and cognitive sciences. Some governments such as…
UK prime minister Keir Starmer (Image credit: AP) LONDON: Britain announced it will build 12 new attack submarines as it was set to unveil Monday a major defence review to deal with “growing” Russian aggression and the changing nature of warfare.Prime Minister Keir Starmer told BBC radio that “there is greater instability on defence and…
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Monday, May 12, revealed a wide-ranging overhaul of the United Kingdom’s immigration system. The Immigration White Paper, titled Restoring Control over the Immigration System, introduced sweeping changes to work, student, family, and asylum visa routes.The reforms have been announced as Starmer’s Labour government, which won last July in a…
LONDON (AP) — Voters in many areas of England go to the polls Thursday in local elections that provide a test of feeling about Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s center-left Labour government, 10 months after it was elected in a landslide. Both Labour and the main opposition Conservative Party are bracing for losses in the midterm…
The Labour government faces its first major electoral test since coming to power next week as people across England vote in local elections. Labour has been neck-and-neck in the polls recently with the Conservatives and Reform, but the Lib Dems and Greens are also doing well in some areas. The government has championed its successes…
The United Kingdom’s Cabinet Office is set to lose nearly a third of its workforce as part of Labour’s drive to reform the Civil Service. Of the 6,500 staff of the Cabinet Office, 2,100 staff are expected to be cut or moved to other departments over the next two years. The cuts include 1,200 posts…
The UK’s Labour government will on Monday set out details of how it plans to slash red tape to boost business, as it struggles to deliver growth nine months after winning power. Chancellor Rachel Reeves‘ shake-up comes after Prime Minister Keir Starmer took aim at the nation’s “flabby state”, sparking anger from unions who called…
Reform is set to take control of Doncaster, where Energy Security Ed Miliband is an MP, from Labour at the local elections in May, according to a recent poll. The poll, conducted by Electoral Calculus for The Telegraph, predicts that Reform will take control of eight councils in less than seven weeks’ time, with the Conservatives…
Hong Kong is seeking to deepen ties with trading partners in Europe, with the city’s finance chief set to make his second post-pandemic trip to London after heading to Madrid for four days. The Post learned that Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po could also meet British officials, months after the country’s Labour Party took office,…