Is Starmer nuts?
10 OCTOBER 2024 | OPINION
This article was reposted with kind permission from the Bruges Group.
In a word and my opinion, no.
Undoubtedly, he is ‘different.’...
Systematic abuse of trust – PMQs 18th June 2025
18 JUNE 2025 | OPINION
Grooming gangs gain the trust of their victims and then abuse them.
It seems they are not the only ones. On...
A plague o’ both your houses
10 February 2022 | OPINION
Both Labour and Conservative MPs are equally to blame for inciting abuse against one another, as well as falling victim...
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...
Starmer’s reshuffle: Reeves frozen out?
2 SEPTEMBER 2025 | OPINION
Yesterday, the Prime Minister announced a personnel reshuffle in Number 10. Darren Jones, previously Reeves’ deputy at the Treasury, has...
Will Sir Keir Starmer make Labour great again? – Tom Pritchard
For the British Labour Party to win a General Election, recent history has shown that the party must move further to the centre and away from the far-left politics it has embraced in recent years, most notably under the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn.
The recorded rise in inflation and the potential consequences for trade...
23 MARCH 2023 | OPINION
Yesterday was a tumultuous day in British politics; whether it be the Boris Johnson Privileges Committee hearing, the usual theatrics...
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...
Binfire Night reprise – PMQs 12th November 2025
12 NOVEMBER 2025 | OPINION
It did not begin well.
The honour of welcoming the PM back to the House fell to the Conservatives’ Lincoln Jopp,...
Labour Conference: Starmer’s last chance – William Hallowell
25 September 2021 | OPINION
If Starmer wants his Macbeth moment, he must use his final opportunity to call for unity at this year’s party...