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Plasters for Severed Legs: A Guide to Britain’s Political Economy
‘ Change ’ cried Starmer at his post-election acceptance speech, as the country tentatively awaited the new government’s solutions for an...
Andres De Miguel
Oct 8, 20243 min read


From the Jaws of Destruction: Why the Tories are Already Back in Business
Labour might have won the general election, but the Conservatives won conference season by a landslide. Prime Minister Keir Starmer...
Dan Sillett
Oct 4, 20244 min read


Watch: Dan Sillett addresses Conservative Party Conference
Dan Sillett Addresses Immigration Debate at 2024 Conservative Party Conference On 30 September 2024, political commentator Dan Sillett...
Dan Sillett
Sep 30, 20241 min read


Grenfell Tower: Inquiry tells tale of endless negligence
‘The system isn’t broken, it was built this way’ Mussilhy, a Grenfell survivor. ‘All Grenfell deaths were avoidable’ – Sir Martin...
Arsima Bereketab
Sep 20, 20244 min read


Badenoch is Bright but can she tame the populists and Unite the Right?
It was unsurprising when Kemi Badenoch entered the Conservative leadership contest last. Known for her astute political instincts, it...
Ethan Harvey
Aug 14, 20244 min read


We need to talk about immigration
Immigration has become a paradoxical issue in Britain: a taboo subject yet a contentious, polemic topic. It polarises public opinion and...
Will Kingston-Cox
Jul 24, 20244 min read


The Tebbit trinity comes back to haunt the Tories again
In a conversation with his advisor, Bernard Donoughue, before the 1979 General Election, the then Prime Minister Jim Callaghan summed up...
Danyal Usman
Jul 23, 20244 min read


Voting Reform? Beware the Pitfalls of Proportional Representation
As Kier Starmer cruised to a predictable and wholesale victory last Thursday, the larger story of the evening was perhaps the...
Joshua Edwicker
Jul 18, 20244 min read


Shattered Tories, Surging Labour: Election of Confusion and Change
A Labour landslide has now been confirmed. Sir Keir Starmer is the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. The Conservatives have suffered...
Louis Gilmore
Jul 8, 20246 min read


The Double Standards Towards Racism in the Conservative Party
Ahead of the election, we have, as always, seen a crop of headlines attacking the character of specific candidates. This year we are...
Phoebe Perkins
Jul 4, 20242 min read


Immigration: Are we Thinking of Different Things?
With a general election fast approaching, immigration is sure to remain high on the policy agenda. Pledges to ‘stop the boats’ and...
Jonathan Gibson
Jul 3, 20244 min read


Space, Time, Change and The Big Rock Candy Mountain
Space is important. I don’t mean space, as in, that place inhabited by planets, asteroids and satellites. I mean that thing that we...
Nicholas Greenhalgh
Jul 3, 20244 min read


Breaking Duopoly: An inflection point for Britain?
Yesterday, Dan Sillett wrote a brilliantly articulated column in which he argued that, due to such a lack of a viable alternative to...
Will Kingston-Cox
Jun 16, 20245 min read


If not the Tories then what's your poison?
Trying to keep up with this election is like an asthmatic snail trying to outrun a cheetah. Simply put, it is impossible. There are...
Dan Sillett
Jun 15, 20245 min read


Rishi Sunak shamefully Skips D-Day commemorations
Rishi Sunak has shown his true colours this week, prioritising a TV interview over the 80th anniversary of D-Day commemorations. In other...
Benjamin Edgar
Jun 10, 20243 min read


UK TV Election Debate: And the Winner is... Both and Neither
The opinion polls in British politics are many things, but close is not one of them. Two of the latest show Labour projected to win 114...
Joe Hawkins
Jun 5, 20243 min read


Sunak 5-3 Starmer: Post-Match Analysis
Last night the UK was treated to its first head-to-head debate between Conservative Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Labour leader Keir...
Dan Sillett
Jun 5, 20247 min read


The Waiting Game: UK Election Result is Inevitable
These are strange times. Parliament is doddering towards the terminus of its five-year life cycle. An election is coming. Every...
Finlay Healy
May 31, 20244 min read


National Service: Tories have shot themselves in the foot
We’re not even a week into the General Election campaign yet and it’s already been a rocky start for Rishi Sunak in his Conservative...
Dan Sillett
May 29, 20244 min read


Fourteen Disastrous Years Coming to End
The starting gun has been fired and the long anticipated race to Downing Street has begun. General elections are always a time of...
Adam McCartan
May 28, 20243 min read
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