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...
Breaking up the Kingdom – the first shots are fired
17 JULY 2024 | OPINION
The author, Rolf Norfolk, is a retired independent financial adviser. You can follow him on X here.
Today, the King’s Speech included...
Rachel Reeves has resolved on the politics of deception
3 AUGUST 2024 | OPINION
This week featured the return of both honesty and deception to political discourse on the economy; honesty about the tight...
Boris Johnson’s reshuffle of the Whips’ and Cabinet Office: summary
10 February 2022 | ANALYSIS
The fallout from PartyGate and the subsequent meeting between Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the 1922 Committee resulted in reports...
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...
Rees-Mogg can get it right, but he’s wrong about Partygate
8 April 2022 | OPINION
Underestimating the public mood can cause politicians some grief. Jacob Rees-Mogg’s fresh Partygate comments could cause far worse than that...
Why do Boris and the Tories dislike our young people so...
Boris Johnson is said to be 'raging' about the low vaccine uptake amongst the youth, but young people are raging about Boris. Raging. No one likes being blackmailed, particularly when they have already made huge sacrifices.
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,...
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.
What is the UN for? It is beyond a joke
1 APRIL 2023 | OPINION
Happy April Fool's Day! How do we know? Because Russia is taking over as chair of the UN Security Council.
After...