Plenty of jokes are making rounds in all kinds of social media platforms since British Prime Minister Liz Truss announced her resignation on October 20. Some of those are just simple facts, yet so hilarious that controlling laughter would be difficult. One Twitterati, Alan McGuiness had  a viral tweet that reads, “My son has lived through four chancellors, three home secretaries, two prime ministers and two monarchs. He’s four months old.” A meme lists Liz Truss’ legacies as “she buried the Queen, the Pound, the Country, the Chancellor, the Conservative Party. All in a month.” And, in the world of Tiktoking, a cheeky video runs a recruitment ad for the UK Prime Minister, which says that the applicant doesn’t need any experience, not even any IQ, who will be working along with a team that changes almost every day.    Last week I wrote about a British tabloid's funny betting of a head of lettuce against the premiership of Liz Truss to see what outlasts the other. As th...

Consistent with the opinion polls among the party faithfuls, the Conservative Party has chosen Liz Truss, a free market champion, as its leader and the fourth prime minister in six years since the Brexit referendum. Liz Truss is the third female prime minister in the United Kingdom, following the footsteps of Margaret Thatcher and Theresa May, a unique record for the Conservative Party, which its rival the Labour Party is yet to achieve. Had his rival Rishi Sunak succeeded, that too would have set a new record, making the first leader from the ethnic  minority communities to rise to the top. Liz Truss moves into one of the most famous addresses, Number 10, Downing Street, vacated by a scandal-ridden populist leader Boris Johnson. Given the enormity of economic woes the UK is facing amid a war in Europe involving Russia and a prolonged global energy crisis, the challenges she faces is multilayered and daunting,  Simply put, her main and first task will be to take effective econ...