ROUND-UP: From Pol Roger to White Lightning – how migrant hotels...
26 AUGUST 2025 | OPINION
August was sold as a vintage for Westminster: migrant hotels closing, Lucy Connolly finally silenced, and Trump’s Alaska summit setting...
Could it be time to move away from the left-right spectrum?...
A lot of people think of politics as being left-right. In Britain, this is Labour vs the Tories. In the US, this is usually the Democrats vs the Republicans. In Germany, this is the Social Democrats vs the Christian Democratic Union.
This Budget is a gallon of gruel – Richard Tice
16 MARCH 2023 | OPINION
Spin, bluster, sound and noise always rage around any Budget. Do you get that strange feeling of having heard all...
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...
Not so Lammentable? – PMQs 5th November 2025
5 NOVEMBER 2025 | OPINION
The commentariat are lammbasting Deputy PM David Lammy for his allegedly calammitous performance at PMQs. However, they need to look...
Should GP surgeries be returning completely to face-to-face consultations? – William...
15 September 2021 | OPINION
As we cautiously begin to exit the pandemic, Sajid Javid is pushing GPs to return to face-to-face consultations – but...
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...