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...
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...
Where’s the wally? – Deputy PMQs 20th November 2024
20 NOVEMBER 2024 | OPINION
Sir Keir – perhaps we should call him other things beginning with K e.g ‘Knockabout,’ the scornful term he used for...
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...
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...
This country cannot be run by opinion poll
28 January 2022 | OPINION
Brexit has had and will have continue to have wide-ranging implications. But perhaps one of the less remarked-upon changes that...
A furious swarm of WASPIs – PMQs 18th December 2024
19 DECEMBER 2024 | OPINION
The loudest buzz this week was about WASPIs – Women Against State Pension Inequality.
In 1995, the then-Conservative Government raised women’s...
Fixing the foundations – PMQs 4th December 2024
4 DECEMBER 2024 | OPINION
One of the PM’s stock phrases is "fixing the foundations". Is he the one to do it?
"Starmer is already in...
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...
Batley and Spen: Can Boris’ Tories bounce back from Chesham and...
In just two days' time, voters in the West Yorkshire constituency of Batley & Spen will go to the polls to elect the successor to the former Coronation Street actress and Labour MP, Tracy Brabin.