The New York Times published  one of the finest long-form features in recent memory last week. The piece was a thorough chronicling of the US-Ukraine relationship and its evolution over the past 12 action-filled months. Despite the US’s off-the-cuff approach to foreign policy, the brazen contempt it shows Ukraine and the rest of Europe is consistently striking. Pressure is barely exerted on Putin, with any attempt to end his barbarous actions feeling futile. Everything is stu

Whilst the Labour Government is being hounded from outside and torn apart from inside, the Tories, who should surely be revelling in such red dismay, are largely excluded from the debate; all heads are turning, whether it’s mainstream media or twitter bubbles, to what Reform have to say. Farage has been bullying the Tories for longer than I can remember, but this is the first time that he and his party of charlatans is squatting in the centre-right voter base that the Tories

Steamrolling towards the 2010 General Election, and needing to recoup votes lost to David Cameron’s Conservatives and ‘ Cleggmania ’, Prime Minister Gordon Brown headed to Rochdale to engage with Joe Public. Unfortunately for him, it all ended up going awry, as Brown ended up committing a political gaffe of the ages following his televised conversation with 66-year-old Gillian Duffy. The exchange  touched on pensions, university tuition, and immigration, as well as other topi

One of the newest episodes of the revived TV show Spitting Image , a stalwart of 1990s political commentary, made a parody of Home Alone . Instead of Kevin, it was Keir  being left in Downing Street all by himself. The goons were replaced by Nigel Farage trying to break in. To be fair, he might have been coming to take a look at his next gaff.  The episode asked a powerful question. How is it that a Prime Minister, elected with a landslide, is now a mockery, polling as the mo

Since Labour reclaimed power last summer, the Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, has borne the brunt of much of the criticism directed towards the government. The decisions to scrap  winter fuel payments  and  inheritance tax exemptions on  farms struck deep; this was an electorate unprepared for such change and a media that underestimated the UK’s first female occupant of the role being so combative right from the onset.  This front-footedness prompted a swift response. Hacks bayed

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood’s proposed asylum reforms received high praise from Reform leader Nigel Farage and notorious far-right activist Tommy Robinson. Inspired by Denmark’s asylum model , Mahmood’s reforms include  refugees having to reclaim asylum every two and a half years, refugees needing to be in the UK for twenty years before they can apply for permanent residency, harsher interpretations of the ECHR frameworks regarding family reunion, and the seizing of high-v

As Zohran Mamdani seizes New York City, what does this 34-year-old’s feat say about politicians further afield? On November 4 th , Zohran Kwame Mamdani became the first Muslim to be elected to the New York City mayoralty, and the youngest since 1892. He brings a disconcerting contrast to the front door of his adversaries, which include the President himself, whilst raising the crucial question of how the Democrats will use this new method of politics to restore orthodoxy. Mam

Occasionally, you stumble across something that perfectly articulates the current zeitgeist. Recently,  Tim Stanley on the Daily T podcast  explained that Farage and Reform are neither a right-wing nor left-wing party; they are a nationalist outfit. Essentially meaning that on some issues the party tacks left, on others they sway right. Fundamentally opportunist, everything is underpinned by the idea and sense, whether factual or not, that decisions are made for your, the Bri

They called it a contract with the people to signify that promises made before the 2024 general election would be kept to their voters. Last Monday they finally put what was left of it in the shredder. With budget speculation having been at fever pitch in Westminster for well over a month, and expected to boil on at such heat for at least another three weeks (opting for a far later date than usual will do just that), Reform’s silence on economics had become one of the larger

It often seems that the next general election is a matter of months away, with seemingly no escape from Nigel Farage’s 24/7 media coverage and gleeful references to Keir Starmer and Labour’s abysmal polling. Elon Musk continues to interfere with UK politics, most recently by appearing via video link at the ‘Unite the Kingdom’ march and proclaiming that parliament must be dissolved . Meanwhile, Starmer's government endured a late-summer of internal crises  and the Prime Minist

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

If it was not already abundantly clear, Reform UK’s pledge to abolish Indefinite Leave to Remain status  (ILR) confirms their stance on...

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...

The seismic emergence of immigration as the UK’s most prominent political issue is catalysing Reform’s exponential successes as a firmly...

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

Illustration by Will Allen/Europinion The hope of change that came with the election of the Labour government in 2024 has now all but...

Keir Starmer and Nigel Farage are fighting to be first in a race to the bottom – much like Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur in...

Illustration by Will Allen/Europinion EDI has been a salient topic in the pubs and supermarkets of Britain recently, thanks to the...

Illustration by Will Allen/Europinion When I first heard Keir Starmer claim Britain is becoming an ‘island of strangers’ thanks to...

Illustration by Will Allen/Europinion Nigel Farage, the leader of Reform UK, declared the “end of two-party politics”  following his...