The seeds of the Government’s current political and economic difficulties were sown a long time ago. “This pudding has no theme” was a Churchillism that could be applied to budgets…
12 Dec, 2025
Bylines
07 Nov, 2025
‘How to Stop Labour’s Autumn of Discontent Turning Into Farage’s Winter of Despair’
Keir Starmer’s Government must learn the lessons of history, or risk paving the way for an authoritarian future under Nigel Farage and Reform. History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does…
11 Aug, 2025
‘A Government That Crushes Dissent and Eliminates Hope Will Never Prosper’
The authoritarian impulse to eliminate disagreement and dampen hope will only push voters towards the extremes. Apparently if you’re awful enough to cut the legs off one side of a…
25 Jul, 2025
The New Left: Could a Jeremy Corbyn Led Party Really Break the Duopoly?
There are huge barriers to creating new parties of the left, but it just might be possible. The Labour Party? You can't live with it and you can't live without…
14 Jul, 2025
‘Progressives Must Unite Against Nigel Farage and National Populism or Reform Will Win’
The series of numbers that really matter in UK politics right now. What do this sequence of numbers represent and do they matter: 4, 5, 6, 9, 72,121 and 411?…
07 Jul, 2025
‘Keir Starmer Is Out of His Depth and Out of His Time’
The Prime Minister’s recent troubles expose how badly our political leaders have lost touch with the shifting demands of the modern era. It’s hard in modern politics not to think…