UK politics and the UK political system are broken. Every week political discourse finds new lows of invective fuelled by a failing Tory Government wanting to weaponise division, racism and…
20 Mar, 2024
20 Mar, 2024
UK politics and the UK political system are broken. Every week political discourse finds new lows of invective fuelled by a failing Tory Government wanting to weaponise division, racism and…
11 Aug, 2023
The Ghent system isn’t likely to be a concept many people are familiar with - at least certainly not in Britain. Yet while this seemingly obscure policy implementation is not…
20 Jul, 2023
As I write this I’m working from Selby. Selby is my hometown; my mum still lives here. I’m writing this on by-election day, and, as you may have heard, Selby…
04 Jul, 2023
This 5th July marks the NHS’s 75th anniversary. But while there’s much to celebrate about this amazing institution, there’s something else we must do as we arrive at this important…
20 Dec, 2022
It is unlikely that you will find anyone who disagrees that the premiership of Liz Truss was a turbulent affair. As a lived experience, it was a mess bereft of…
14 Nov, 2022
Labour’s HQ is taking an extremely heavy-handed approach to Parliamentary selections by ruling out perfectly acceptable candidates on increasingly spurious grounds. Factionalism is one thing. Vice-like control that subverts democracy…
07 Sep, 2022
I'm writing this on my first day back at work after a fortnight of rest and truly revitalising food for the soul, and I know that I am immensely privileged…
30 Aug, 2022
In The Conservative Counter-Revolution in Britain and America 1980-2020 I consider whether there is any overarching explanation for the main political, economic and social changes in the major Anglophone countries over the…
05 Aug, 2022
Some things in life remain constant, but increasingly British politics are being turned upside down. The old assumptions no longer hold and the conventions and rules which used to define…
28 Jul, 2022
The UK is in a mess, its economy no longer delivers; society is divided and fractured, and government under the Tories no longer provides support for those who need it.…
16 Jun, 2022
Swale Borough Council provides district council services to an area of North Kent, including the Isle of Sheppey, the towns of Faversham and Sittingbourne and the surrounding rural hinterland. By…
09 May, 2022
Since 2019, a Labour-Lib Dem coalition has held control of North Hertfordshire District Council. At the 2022 Local Election, this was strengthened with Labour gaining two seats against the Tories…