Rachel Reeves has resolved on the politics of deception

3 AUGUST 2024 | OPINION This week featured the return of both honesty and deception to political discourse on the economy; honesty about the tight...

July wasn’t a dream – that happened

7 AUGUST 2025 | OPINION Votes for kids. Trains to Berlin. Corbyn’s comeback. Trump outshining Starmer. If you thought you were hallucinating, you weren’t. July...

Angie rides out – PMQs 23rd October 2024

23 OCTOBER 2024 | OPINION Angela Rayner fielded the questions today. Facing her for the Opposition was Sir Oliver Dowden, on his last PMQs stint...

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...

COP26: What to expect from the summit

26 October 2021 | ANALYSIS From Sunday 31st October through to Friday 12th November, all eyes will be on Glasgow as the United Kingdom hosts...

Down but not out: Boris Johnson might pull off yet another...

5 February 2022 | ANALYSIS By all conventional accounts, Boris Johnson should be finished. After plunging the United Kingdom into several liberty-restricting lockdowns, the Prime Minister...

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...

Rubbish: PMQs 11th February 2026

11 FEBRUARY 2026 | OPINION As the Prime Minister rose, both sides of the House cheered. “I did not think that the Prime Minister was...

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...

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...