Democracies are no better than other forms of government at avoiding catastrophic mistakes. But they are much more effective at rectifying them. While the 2024 British general election might have seemed a long time coming, as the country meandered from one failure to the next, the utter scale of defeat
Tag: uk election
4 Bangladeshi-origin women win in UK election
Four Bangladesh-origin candidates have been elected as Labour Party lawmakers in the UK parliament. The result was published on the official website of the British Parliament on Friday morning. The four winners are Tulip Rizwana Siddiq, Rushanara Ali, Rupa Huq and Apsana Begum. Tulip, granddaughter of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, has won by
Doctors on strike on week before UK election
Thousands of doctors in England are staging their 11th walkout on Thursday in a long-running dispute with the government over pay and working conditions, disrupting hospital services just days before the UK general election. The five-day strike by junior doctors — those in the early years of their careers — shines