trust started out as a youthful actavist, as a liberal democrat. She urned towards conservatism and has been in the party ever since. The message that she is selling is one tat britain's best days are ahead. But some of the detail is sketchy to non existent. And we'll have to see whether she has more to say than those big, kind of thatcheryraganite kind of packages.
As Liz Truss becomes prime minister, we ask whether her meat-and-potatoes tax-slashing agenda will work for a crisis-stricken Britain. Japan’s prison population is ageing just as its wider society is—and that is at last prompting reforms to its punitive penal system. And why Ukraine’s short supply of anti-tank missiles is not as worrying as it would once have been.
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