Some time ago, on the Ides of March, an article  of mine was published on historical thresholds. In it I observed that there are interregnums which, once crossed, see us like Dorothy in Oz - standing in a different world.   Following Angela Rayner’s resignation, the Labour Party have reached a new threshold. A Cabinet and Ministerial re-shuffle, and the election of a new Deputy Leader, could each amount to more than a historical footnote. Some hope is proffered by these chang

Keir Starmer has always reminded me of one of those schoolteachers – the perfectly decent, dithering kind whom good kids pity, and bad...

Before he became the UK’s most famous metro mayor, Andy Burnham was just a regular politician, an MP. This Andy Burnham was a rather...

It’s been a brutal few weeks for the Labour Party. Starmer’s post-summer “relaunch” lasted all of 48 hours before the wheels fell off....

Most politicians try, desperately, to be normal - and most politicians fail at being normal. Our leaders and elected representatives...

Edmund Burke  is synonymous with conservatism. The namesake of a foundation  that serves the right on both sides of the Atlantic, Burke...

The writing is on the wall. It is not an understatement to say that Sir Keir Starmer’s lofty vision for change has now all but dissipated...

By now, you may have heard the phrase "Iron Chancellor" used to describe Rachel Reeves. It has been whispered – sometimes with...

Rachel Reeves is, to put it lightly, in a bit of a pickle over the UK’s finances. At the end of July, the Office for National Statistics...

On 24 July, Jeremy Corbyn announced the formation of a new left-wing party, which he provisionally dubbed ‘Your Party’, with the official...

Charli XCX’s album ‘Brat’ has now seemingly become a political marketing staple on both sides of the Atlantic, along with Tiktok trends...

The Labour government recently announced  that it would lower the voting age in general elections from 18 years old to 16 in what marks...

When you hear the moniker ‘world’s most successful political party’, you may initially think of some well-known authoritarian regimes. ...

British politics is volatile as of late. The UK’s political parties are all clamouring for an ascendancy amidst the Labour government’s...

The Labour Government, with all the grace of a cantankerous aunt rearranging your closet, has turned its gaze to the internet. The...

It has been enjoyable to exchange with fellow Europinion writer Andrés De Miguel, but this will be the last word on our quarrel. I hope...

More than three weeks on from the vote on Keir Starmer’s welfare bill , I still can’t shake the feeling that there was a serious error of...

It is safe to say that Labour’s first year in power hasn’t exactly gone to plan. Cratering in the opinion polls, a Parliamentary Party in...

In the build-up to Glastonbury, all eyes were on Kneecap, them having become famous for raising awareness Israel’s genocide in Palestine  at their sets, and with member Mo Chara’s ongoing  terror lawsuit making headlines. Fearing they would pull out all the stops at the world’s biggest music festival, in an unprecedented move, the BBC cut short coverage of the festival’s West Holts stage only for the hour of Kneecap’s set. In a glorious moment of comeuppance, however, the act

The Labour Party has always claimed to stand for equality, dignity, and working-class solidarity. For so many of us, that promise once...