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Cold Chaos: Labour’s Reign of Division and Disorder
I fear I am running the risk of becoming a broken record. I can assure you I am not a doom-merchant. When I began commentating on British...
Will Kingston-Cox
Aug 20, 20244 min read


Labour Asleep at the Wheel
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer cancelled his holiday last week in an attempt to steady the ship after widespread riots turned the UK into...
Dan Sillett
Aug 16, 20244 min read


Rebuilding ‘Jerusalem’
Clement Attlee’s post-war Labour government is rightly lauded for its radical zeal. Inheriting a Britain emotionally scarred by the...
Danyal Usman
Aug 13, 20244 min read


Starmer cannot “reset” Europe-UK relations
Only a few weeks old, one of the emerging priorities for Starmer’s Labour government is to fix what his EU Chief, Nick Thomas-Symonds,...
Rafael Holmberg
Aug 5, 20243 min read


Labour's Wilting Rose: Austerity is Coming
There are three nailed on certainties in this world: death, taxes, and Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves making so-called “difficult...
Dan Sillett
Aug 2, 20244 min read


Govern in the National Interest: Scrap the Two-Child Benefit Cap and Cut Pension Costs
If you listen to Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves, you'll hear that they lead a very serious government committed to duty, change, and the...
Jack Rowlett
Jul 25, 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


A very royal descent: Britain will decline under Labour
On Wednesday, King Charles delivered the King’s Speech at the State Opening of Parliament . This might seem like some outdated, pompous...
Dan Sillett
Jul 19, 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


Your New Prime Minister - And God Help You, It's Keir Starmer
This election is one to forget for all parties. The worst that British politics has to give has been on display – no matter your...
Dan Sillett
Jul 5, 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


To Love Your Country Is Not Always to Be Proud of It
Parents are often put in difficult situations by their kids. Children don’t always achieve everything their parents had hoped for them,...
Beatrice Learmouth
Jul 1, 20244 min read


Just Like Blair: Starmer Empowers the Populist Right
Last Monday in the South Wales town of Merthyr Tydfil, a political storm was brewing. Through a frenzy of flashing cameras and rapturous...
Henry Jones
Jun 24, 20244 min read


Government Debt is Good, Actually…
Economists find it hard to enjoy election campaigns. The quality of political discourse, especially regarding economic policy, is poor....
Hugh Lind
Jun 20, 20244 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


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


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


Any National Service Should be Voluntary
It’s almost certain that Rishi Sunak will leave office on the 4th July 2024 which would make him the 3rd shortest-serving PM since the...
Jack Wilkin
May 28, 20243 min read


Keir Starmer: Political genius? Or simply fortuitous?
The results of the local elections have almost certified that Keir Starmer is set to be Britain’s next Prime Minister. The Labour Party...
Danyal Usman
May 25, 20244 min read
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