'Why don't people leave bad jobs?'
Sarah O'Connor in the Financial Times
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'You'd have to pay me to buy an electric car'
Patrick O'Flynn in The Telegraph
"I can't be the only motorist who is delighted with his petrol car," writes Patrick O'Flynn in The Telegraph. "And immensely sceptical about being dragooned down the Electric Vehicle (EV) road", pointing to financial commentator Merryn Somerset Webb's comment on social media yesterday: "Better cars don't need tax incentives." Consequently, O'Flynn says, "no amount of net zero bossiness… by politicians or car salesmen is likely to change our minds any time soon".
'Rishi Sunak may be facing an electoral sea-change of his own'
The Evening Standard editorial board
There are moments in history when "there is nothing any incumbent leader or party can do" to stay in power, says the Evening Standard editorial board. An Ipsos survey for the paper shows that "nearly nine in 10 adults believe Britain needs a fresh team of leaders". In the meantime, Rishi Sunak’s problem "is that few, including those on his own benches, expect him to remain prime minister for much longer".
'The media needs to cover the climate crisis as seriously as it covered Covid'
Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle Pope for The Guardian
Despite "the hottest summer in history", not to mention "wildfires, tropical storms and crazy-hot oceans", the news media "continues to be outdone by the rest of popular culture when it comes to covering the most urgent story of our time", write Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle Pope in The Guardian. "Inexplicably, climate crisis remains a niche concern for most mainstream news outlets." The coverage as a whole "is still not matching the scale of the crisis".
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Trump says Ukraine can win, UN nations ‘going to hell’Speed Read In a speech to the United Nations General Assembly, the president criticized the UN and renewable energy, plus made a sudden pivot on the war in Ukraine
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Black women are being pushed out of the workforce en masseIN THE SPOTLIGHT Employment data shows hundreds of thousands of Black women have left the labor market over the past few months. What's behind this mass exodus?
