Warning bells – PMQs 16th October 2024
16 OCTOBER 2024 | ANALYSIS
The Starmernaut continues to roll over the Opposition. Sir Keir is hardly trying: he repeated his "14 years" reference to...
Jumping fences – PMQs 30th October 2024
30 OCTOBER 2024 | OPINION
The Left proves it is progressive by being transgressive. Customs are for breaching, rules for breaking. How else is one...
Waiting for Starmer: matinee politics in a failing state
30 JUNE 2025 | OPINION
The Prime Minister acts like he’s in charge. Parliament delivers its lines. But no-one believes the script anymore. From rebellion...
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...
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...
A knighthood for the Mayor of London is not perhaps the...
6 JANUARY 2025 | OPINION
Reproduced in its original form, with kind permission from Conservative Home.
There has been much hand-wringing and teeth-gnashing, particularly among folk...
Fighting for survival? – PMQs 14th May 2025
14 MAY 2025 | OPINION
This week’s PMQs has more in it than can be covered here, because we take one key issue as our...
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...
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,...
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...