I admit that after a week in which I wrote at least 25,000 words, I feel like a Saturday off. However, yesterday long-term commentator on
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I was hoping to spend a much time on the glossary this week as I did last, but a tsunami of other work has meant
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Keir Starmer launched a new Labour policy initiative yesterday. It managed 20 seconds on Channel 4 news, below the SNP leadership election. And there was
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I often talk about the far right, because I think it exists, that real people and far too many politicians are part of it, and
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This Tweet was put out by the Peston programme on ITV on Wednesday based on polling Queen’s University Belfast had done: https://twitter.com/itvpeston/status/1628520534089646092?s=20 That is a
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I made my first intervention in the SNP leadership debate in the columns of The National newspaper in an article published late yesterday. In it
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I often wonder when it might be that the idea that we tax and then spend will be replaced with a proper understanding of the
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Issues relating to Ireland have been troublesome for British politics for centuries. Since 1802, when the Irish parliament was subsumed into that in Westminster, the
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The House of Lords considered the government’s draconian public order Bill last night and according to the Guardian inflicted a series of defeats on the
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