A furious swarm of WASPIs – PMQs 18th December 2024
19 DECEMBER 2024 | OPINION
The loudest buzz this week was about WASPIs – Women Against State Pension Inequality.
In 1995, the then-Conservative Government raised women’s...
We all wish we could mark our own homework
13 DECEMBER 2024 | OPINION
Republished from here with kind permission from Conservative Home.
We are a nation being taken for fools. The Prime Minister came...
A room full of elephants – PMQs 11th December 2024
11 DECEMBER 2024 | OPINION
Watching the PM and Kemi Badenoch go at each other over immigration today, an independent observer might be inclined to...
An infinite number of flunkeys
9 DECEMBER 2024 | OPINION
A month after the petition to call a fresh General Election, the Government has issued an official response. It appears to have...
Fixing the foundations – PMQs 4th December 2024
4 DECEMBER 2024 | OPINION
One of the PM’s stock phrases is "fixing the foundations". Is he the one to do it?
"Starmer is already in...
Petitions and grievances – PMQs 27th November 2024
27 NOVEMBER 2024 | OPINION
It may be a record: the Leader of the Opposition inviting the Prime Minister to resign after less than six...
Where’s the wally? – Deputy PMQs 20th November 2024
20 NOVEMBER 2024 | OPINION
Sir Keir – perhaps we should call him other things beginning with K e.g ‘Knockabout,’ the scornful term he used for...
Slither and strike – PMQs 13th November 2024
13 NOVEMBER 2024 | OPINION
Sir Keir’s counterattacks on the Opposition are a standard Prime Ministerial way to respond to questions, but his evasions and...
No more bromance – PMQs 6th November 2024
6 NOVEMBER 2024 | OPINION
Emily Maitlis loved last week’s PMQs: "Just imagine if PMQs was like this every week. Conciliatory. Helpful. By partisan. Passionate and compassionate."
Your...
Stop smashing the system!
1 NOVEMBER 2024 | OPINION
We need to be clear: the aim of the Blair-Brown-Starmer constitutional changes is to take power away not from Westminster,...