The Prime Minister’s advisers believe that when push comes to shove most progressive voters will have no real choice but to vote Labour, and they may be right. Ok let's…
13 May, 2025
Reform
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…
09 May, 2025
How to Win Back Reform Voters
During regular canvassing in my Oxfordshire constituency of Didcot and Wantage, including for May 1st’s county council elections, it became increasingly common to encounter voters who are open about their…
02 May, 2025
Fragmentation and Farageism – Time for New Direction
There is nothing inevitable about the rise of Nigel Farage and Reform UK. Brits are not naturally predisposed towards national populism and all the divisions that come with it. Parties…
22 Apr, 2025
Speech to Oxfordshire Compass – 12th April 2025
This post was first given as a speech to members of Oxfordshire Compass by Compass Director, Neal Lawson on 12th April 2025. Winning office is never enough, we have to…
25 Feb, 2025
Keir Starmer Must Embrace Proportional Representation and End the Coercive Duopoly Throttling Our Democracy
Britain will never truly change for the better as long as Britain’s deeply unfair voting system remains in place, argues Neal Lawson This week I’m going to write about electoral…
19 Feb, 2025
Keir Starmer’s Blue Labour Strategy Is an Electoral Dead End for His Government
Labour’s attempt to mimic Nigel Farage’s Reform on immigration is a fundamental misunderstanding of its electoral base. As I’ve written for Byline Times before, every successful political project requires an intellectual framework. …