Rolf Norfolk
Rolf Norfolk is a retired independent financial adviser.
Fog of war: PMQs & ‘Spring Statement’ 26th March 2025
26 MARCH 2025 | OPINION
The PM "is not answering the question about discipline in schools … did not answer the question about compensating...
Universal exports: PMQs 19th March 2025
19 MARCH 2025 | OPINION
The Speaker began by welcoming his guest – the Mongolian parliament’s Chairman – as an observer in the Gallery.
Dashzegviin Amarbayasgalan is...
Consequences – PMQs 12th March 2025
12 MARCH 2025 | OPINION
Try asking Grok: ‘When did questions at UK PMQs cease to be spontaneous?’
For it has come to resemble an am-dram living-room script-reading...
War and peace – PMQs 5th March 2025
5 MARCH 2025 | OPINION
At Eton, they call it ‘oiling’. Half an hour in, newbie Labour MP Mike Tapp applied the grease gun ruthlessly:
"These are delicate...
Muddy waters – PMQs 26th February 2025
26 FEBRUARY 2025 | OPINION
Starmer is turning into a doubleplusgood duckspeaker. Ask him an awkward question, get a torrent of whataboutery quacking.
Mr Speaker set him...
Nailing the jelly – PMQs 12th February 2025
12 FEBRUARY 2025 | OPINION
The Opposition struggles to wrench itself free of the Conservative Party’s lamentable record over the past years and remains vulnerable...
A tough game – PMQs 29 January 2025
29 JANUARY 2025 | NEWS
The match opened with Labour’s Damien Egan asking the Prime Minister to oppose means testing of the State Pension and...
Inceptions – PMQs 22nd January 2025
22 JANUARY 2025 | OPINION
It’s not been a good week for the PM.
Yesterday, he attempted some damage limitation over the Axel Rudakubana case and the associated...
A whim of iron
17 JANUARY 2025 | OPINION
At this week's PMQs, the Prime Minister called the Conservative Opposition "economic vandals and fantasists" who wanted the benefits of...
Systemic failure – PMQs 8th January 2025
8 JANUARY 2025 | OPINION
The great boil of UK child abuse has been lanced and has spattered its contents over all three major political...