The North Shropshire by-election is a greater loss for Labour than...
20 December 2021 | OPINION
The Liberal Democrats can gloat all they like about ‘winning’ a 200-year-old Tory safe seat, but this mid-term polling exercise...
September 2025: The month the dystopias came true
6 OCTOBER 2025 | OPINION
Orwell warned of surveillance, Huxley of control through comfort, Kafka of faceless justice, Bradbury of thought turned into crime. In...
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...
Universal exports: PMQs 19th March 2025
19 MARCH 2025 | OPINION
The Speaker began by welcoming his guest – the Mongolian parliament’s Chairman – as an observer in the Gallery.
Dashzegviin Amarbayasgalan is...
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...
It’s time for some new ideas – Richard Tice
8 September 2021 | OPINION
So, it has come to pass after all. After weeks of rumour, the Government has decided to put up taxes...
Is the Mayor of Manchester set to succeed Sir Keir Starmer?
Throughout Jeremy Corbyn's five-year stint as leader of the Labour Party, it was often said that had another MP won the race to succeed Ed Miliband, the party would have been 10 to 20 points ahead of the Conservatives.
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...
Boris, hands off our beers! – Jonathan Eida
10 August 2021 | OPINION
Needless to say, it has been a tumultuous year-and-a-half all round for the vast majority of us. Through the exhaustive...
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...