Let’s start with the unquestionably good news before we get to the ‘buts’. Our Children, Our Future represents the first UK wide child poverty strategy since the last Labour government.…
22 Dec, 2025
Government
12 Dec, 2025
Budget 2025: ‘Rachel Reeves Bakes an Economic Pudding With No Theme’
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 May, 2025
Keir Starmer Offers a Reform-lite Virtue Signalling Around Immigration
By any metric the political hard-right in the UK can claim a certain degree of success over the past 10 years, firstly by forcing an EU membership referendum, then winning…