Inceptions – PMQs 22nd January 2025

22 JANUARY 2025 | OPINION It’s not been a good week for the PM. Yesterday, he attempted some damage limitation over the Axel Rudakubana case and the associated...

A whim of iron

17 JANUARY 2025 | OPINION At this week's PMQs, the Prime Minister called the Conservative Opposition "economic vandals and fantasists" who wanted the benefits of...

Sunlit uplands for Reform UK?

15 JANUARY 2025 | OPINION The author, Tony Bolton, is a freelance journalist. Reform UK has recently suffered its first major hiccup – one that has...

Systemic failure – PMQs 8th January 2025

8 JANUARY 2025 | OPINION The great boil of UK child abuse has been lanced and has spattered its contents over all three major political...

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...

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...

We all wish we could mark our own homework

13 DECEMBER 2024 | OPINION Republished from here with kind permission from Conservative Home. We are a nation being taken for fools. The Prime Minister came...

A room full of elephants – PMQs 11th December 2024

11 DECEMBER 2024 | OPINION Watching the PM and Kemi Badenoch go at each other over immigration today, an independent observer might be inclined to...

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...

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...
Wolves of Westminster