Huzzah for the hols! – PMQs 16th July 2025

16 JULY 2025 | OPINION Criticising Sir Keir is like firing children’s sucker-tipped arrows at a battle tank. When the Opposition leader spoke of inflation, higher...

HS2 has caused a stir, but why is it so controversial?

28 June 2021 | ANALYSIS The recent Liberal Democrat by-election victory in Chesham and Amersham sparked headlines. The election was called following the passing of...

Boris must tackle the cost of living if he wants to...

21 April 2022 | OPINION Boris Johnson's political career hangs by a thread. Britain's happy-go-lucky Prime Minister, who has been plagued by 'Partygate', now finds himself in...

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...

There will be only one winner in a war between the...

9 August 2021 | OPINION Downing Street has been on something of a war footing in recent months. After building defences to protect the Prime Minister...

The Lord Chancellor Who Nearly Wasn’t

12 JULY 2024 | OPINION Shabana Mahmood has been appointed holder of what is technically the greatest office in the UK, but nearly lost her Parliamentary...

At the flicks – PMQs 7th May 2025

7 MAY 2025 | OPINION Supporting Programme Last week, Labour lost nearly 200 seats in the council elections. The PM said it meant he should go...

Christian Wakeford’s defection will cause more problems for Starmer in the...

20 January 2021 | OPINION Reportedly having been in talks with the Labour leader for 4 months before crossing the floor, the MP for Bury...

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...
Wolves of Westminster