The new Prime Minister is turning out to be awesome - from Ars Technica:
PM Theresa May drops political bombshell on Whitehall—tech firms beware!
New prime minister Theresa May has dramatically reshuffled her Tory government's cabinet in the wake of David Cameron's exit, following a speech in Downing Street on Wednesday in which the new PM promised to "think not of the powerful, but you."
She claimed, in what appeared to be a follow up to her leadership campaign speech on Monday, that the British public will be prioritised over big business when it comes to taxes. At the start of this week—hours before May was announced as the UK's new prime minister—she singled out companies such as Google and Amazon, whose tax dodging arrangements recently led to a huge amount of parliamentary scrutiny.
And then, there is this blast of sanity from the Beeb:
Government axes climate department
The government has axed the Department of Energy and Climate Change (Decc) in a major departmental shake-up.
The brief will be folded into an expanded Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy under Greg Clark.
Ed Miliband, the former energy and climate secretary under Labour, called the move "plain stupid".
It comes at a time when campaigners are urging the government to ratify the Paris climate change deal.
Actually, Miliband has it wrong-way around - her move is brilliant and it is the Paris Accord which is stupid - not based on science.
Looks like we have another Margaret Thatcher at the helm.
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