Time to force people to vote

Trudy Sellick rose before dawn on 12 March 1970. An audio typist, she was keen to complete a most important task before starting work. So by 7am she was waiting for the doors to open at her local poll

Over the past four decades, as inequality has grown exponentially for all Americans, the number of poor and low-income white people—66 million in 2018—has swelled higher than any other demographic. Th

Pick of the week’s correspondence

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Speculation has reached fever pitch about the contents of the government’s forthcoming Autumn Budget. This follows the assessment of the highly respected NIESR (National Institute of Economic and Soci

François Bayrou, the beleaguered French prime minister, has said that the 8 September confidence vote in parliament, which is expected to go against him and his budget proposals, will not decide “the