Unbiased news is our bulwark against chaos
25 SEPTEMBER 2025 | OPINION
On 8 September, BBC1 breakfast time news headlines referred to the two men who machine-gunned six people at a bus...
Direct democracy is the answer to this country’s problems – Oliver...
6 August 2021 | OPINION
‘Of Mice and Men’
Psychologists have conducted some strange experiments in their time. The act of balancing mice on a raft...
Palestine and poppies
10 NOVEMBER 2023 | OPINION
As the period of Remembrance approaches this weekend, Armistice Day has been overshadowed by a bitter row over the possibility...
Never apologise, never explain: PMQs 23rd April 2025
23 APRIL 2025 | OPINION
In the movie ‘Alien’, the sole survivor discovers that the monster is hiding in her escape pod. She presses buttons...
The creeping trend of increasing press restriction
18 December 2021 | OPINION
Recent events might suggest that we are in an environment in which state control over media and the press is...
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."
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Back to the 70s – PMQs 9th July 2025
9 JULY 2025 | OPINION
In their opening remarks, the PM and the Leader of the Opposition both paid tribute to Lord Tebbit, who died...
Five years on: was Project Fear actually Project Reality?
23 June 2021 | ANALYSIS
On the 23rd of June 2016, voters in the United Kingdom took a decision that would transform British politics and...
Can senior Church figures have a place in political discourse?
20 April 2022 | OPINION
The Archbishop of Canterbury has been at the centre of debate over the Easter holiday period after criticising the Government’s...
Sunlit uplands for Reform UK?
15 JANUARY 2025 | OPINION
Reform UK has recently suffered its first major hiccup – one that has been dealt with swiftly and decisively, simply...