Voting reform, a politically convenient way of describing attempts to stitch up elections, has been an issue in American politics since before the Civil War
The battle cries have only grown louder since Donald Trump claimed that vote rigging, voter fraud and downright theft cost him the White House last year.
America’s two dominant political parties have long devised ways to ensure that they win at the ballot box, all dressed up as a way of making elections fairer
It is the Republicans, still licking their wounds from losing the White House and with an eye on next November’s midterm elections, who are accused now of trying to tilt the scales back in their favour in the largely Southern states they still control
And they are doing so, it is alleged, by limiting access to the ballot box for those traditionally less likely to back them.
Opponents say the efforts are blatant attempts to suppress the Democratic vote, and that in many cases the measures are racist.
The government’s race review has come under intense criticism over claims that it whitewashes examples of racism in the UK and seeks to ‘put a positive spin on slavery’ and the British Empire thetimes.co.uk/article/anger-…
On Tuesday, the government released a summary outlining a report by the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities into racism in the UK
It hailed Britain as a model on race, saying that the country had become a more open society and that racial inequalities had narrowed
But the release of the full report yesterday, alongside the resignation of the prime minister’s top black adviser, Samuel Kasumu, has called its findings into question
For anyone considering their odds of beating the house when gambling on the online betting behemoth Bet365, the payout given to its co-founder this year should give them pause for thought thetimes.co.uk/article/woman-…
Our readers have had a lot to say on Denise Coates’s success.
Some are concerned about the wellbeing of those who contributed to Bet365's success.
Summer holidays should be permitted to more than 130 countries because of the success of Britain’s vaccination programme, ministers have been told thetimes.co.uk/article/covid-…
It's likely that some form of traffic-light system will ultimately be introduced to dictate foreign travel
🔴 The traffic-light system would ban travel to “red” countries
Is Rishi Sunak to blame for the UK’s second wave of Covid-19?
In autumn last year, Boris Johnson chose to follow the advice of his chancellor over that of key scientists - at great cost. thetimes.co.uk/article/rishi-…
In mid-August pf 2020, as positive tests had risen to more than a thousand a day, The Commons all-party coronavirus group wrote directly to the prime minister.
“To minimise the risk of a second wave occurring . . . an urgent change in government approach is required,” it said.
The letter was waiting for Johnson when he returned from his holiday on the coast of Scotland. He never replied, and went on to ignore the MPs’ advice concerning a zero-Covid strategy.
#WorldatFive: The kidnap-for-ransom industry is terrorising the northwest region of Nigeria, highlighted by the mass abduction of more than 600 schoolchildren over the past three months thetimes.co.uk/article/nigeri…
All the pupils have since been released but none of the perpetrators have been arrested, and the government seems clueless as to how to end the crisis, the latest in a litany of problems that is pushing Africa’s most populous nation closer to the brink.
“The very survival of the nation is at stake. The nation is falling apart,” the Catholic Bishops’ Conference said last week of the rise in nationwide violence