The UK Government has responded to the December 2021 surge in numbers of people testing positive for the new Omicron variant with an…
Author: Ashis Banerjee
The North Shropshire By-Election of December 2021: A Mega Anti-Government Protest Vote
It is customary for voting members of the British public to register their unhappiness with the ruling political party at a by-election. On…
Christmas Day is Britain’s most eagerly awaited national holiday and the highlight of a month-long season of parties and festivities, although it may…
Russia’s recent deployment of troops and military hardware (guns, mortars, cannons, tanks, and surface-to-air missiles) along its 1,226-mile-long land border with Ukraine, coupled…
Revelations in the Daily Mirror on 30 November 2021 about a spate of partying by ruling party elites and parliamentary officials in London…
The small and vibrant island nation of Barbados recently became the world’s newest republic when it cut its long-standing ties with the British…
Arthur’s Murder: A Failure of Child Protection in England During the 2020 Spring Lockdown
The facts are not in dispute. Six-year-old Arthur Labinjo-Hughes was beaten at home in the town of Shirley in the West Midlands of…
Global Semiconductor Chip Shortages Continue into 2022: The Impact of Geopolitics, a Pandemic, and Supply Chain Failures
Consumers around the world have come to rely on the semiconductor chip in an increasingly digitalised environment. But since early 2020 the supply…
It isn’t unheard of for close neighbours to fall out with each other, nor even to repeatedly fall in and out when they…
The early months of the COVID-19 pandemic were marked by uncertainties over the behaviour of the novel coronavirus, delays in decision making by…