Matt Cooper: Plastic pollsters pulling a stroke undermines trust and politics
The political parties’ cavalier attitude to revelations of fake polling suggests they think we’re as cynical as they are
The Last Post: Martin’s ‘build back better’ plan will need stable foundations
Our approach to rebuilding the economy after the financial crash was conservative and unimaginative. Let’s hope for a different strategy as we move beyond the pandemic
The Last Post: Something is rotten in the state of British democracy
Last week’s Dominic Cummings circus underlined the incompetence and cynicism that powers Boris Johnson and his government’s approach to both Brexit and Covid
The Last Post: How a pharma dynasty’s drug deals created an empire of pain
A new book looks at the rise and fall of the Sacklers, the immensely wealthy family behind the hard selling of blockbuster painkiller OxyContin which is regarded as the catalyst for the opioid crisis in the US