War and peace – PMQs 5th March 2025
5 MARCH 2025 | OPINION
At Eton, they call it ‘oiling’. Half an hour in, newbie Labour MP Mike Tapp applied the grease gun ruthlessly:
"These are delicate...
Muddy waters – PMQs 26th February 2025
26 FEBRUARY 2025 | OPINION
Starmer is turning into a doubleplusgood duckspeaker. Ask him an awkward question, get a torrent of whataboutery quacking.
Mr Speaker set him...
Nailing the jelly – PMQs 12th February 2025
12 FEBRUARY 2025 | OPINION
The Opposition struggles to wrench itself free of the Conservative Party’s lamentable record over the past years and remains vulnerable...
A tough game – PMQs 29 January 2025
29 JANUARY 2025 | NEWS
The match opened with Labour’s Damien Egan asking the Prime Minister to oppose means testing of the State Pension and...
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
Reform UK has recently suffered its first major hiccup – one that has been dealt with swiftly and decisively, simply...
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...