What does Brexit mean? – Patrick Timms
20 May 2019 | OPINION
Why our use of language is very important
As a
linguist, the way people use language has always been of great interest...
Keeping Britain great through the G7 – Tom Pritchard
18 May 2020 | OPINION
Come next year, the United Kingdom will hold the Presidency of the G7. This means that we will be the...
A mayoral race: an insider’s take – Nick Buckley MBE
I am mournful. I am disappointed. Not for failing to become Mayor of Greater Manchester last week. For this was an impossible task for a 'no one' with an eight-week campaign. I may be a loser, but I am a realistic loser. My feeling of melancholy comes from the lack of impact I made across the region. I received 2.7% of the vote, equating to 19,000 votes.
This Budget is a gallon of gruel – Richard Tice
16 MARCH 2023 | OPINION
Spin, bluster, sound and noise always rage around any Budget. Do you get that strange feeling of having heard all...
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...
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...
Creating One-Nation: The Empowerment of Sport – Paul Maginnis
24 June 2019 | OPINION
We
hear a lot about ‘one-nation’. Whether it comes from Rory Stewart, Boris
Johnson, or even Ed Miliband back in 2012. In...
Should the BBC rule the [air]waves? – George Duff
28 August 2020 | OPINION
If the Proms row has had an impact on the BBC's reputation, it's been greater awareness of the BBC's structural...
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
Today, the King’s Speech included elements of Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s programme for radical change.
The first indication came even...