Week in the UK. Good or bad

On Thursday, Royal Mail’s plan to stop delivering post on Saturdays has been blocked by the government in a blow to the company, which has claimed a six-day service is financially unsustainable. The postal company had requested that the government change the universal service obligation (USO) – a condition of its privatisation in 2013. However, the business department said it had no plans to adjust the requirement to deliver on Saturday as well as the five weekdays, in a response to a report by MPs on the business select committee. MPs would have to vote through any changes to the obligation. Kevin Hollinrake, a minister at the Department for Business and Trade, wrote: “We currently have no plans to change the minimum requirements of the universal postal service as set out in the Postal Services Act 2011 … including six-day letter deliveries.”  The reaction was coherent. "Established in 1516 as a public service Survives 500 years of public ownership Sold off between 2011-...

On Wednesday, another poll showed that most voters now want closer ties with EU in dramatic reversal of public opinion since Brexit . A survey of more than 10,000 people appears to show a big shift in public opinion since Brexit.The Focaldata poll, for the internationalist campaign group Best for Britain and revealed by The Observer on Sunday, found 53% of voters want the government to seek a closer relationship with the EU than it now has, after having left the single market and customs union. Just 14% who want the UK to become more distant, the polls says. It also shows three times as many adults (63%) now believe Brexit has created more problems than it has solved, compared with just 21% who believe it has solved more than it has created. The survey shows a dramatic reversal in opinion towards the EU in parts of the UK which overwhelmingly backed Brexit in 2016.  The UK Redditors even invented their own referendum: "Perhaps voters could have an unbrexit referendum alon...