Mahmood Declares ‘Crowborough Is Just the Start’
Those words will come back to haunt her.
UK Politics
This Government Is Betraying Us
When a government not only obfuscates but blatantly lies in this way it begs so many questions.
The UK Is in Freefall
England’s predicament has been managed and self-inflicted. Britain chose a path that prioritized symbolic commitments and distributional narratives over growth, affordability, and territorial cohesion.
Reform To Take on Khan
Laila Cunningham pledges to wage “all-out war” on crime, scrap the hated Ulez scheme and automate Tube trains to end the strikes.
Setting up a Carnival of Politics
With just over a month to go, I feel like film director Mike Leigh trying to justify his improvisational technique. There’s a basic idea, a few actors, a location and the outline of a script. That’s it.
Installations of EV Chargers Are Slowing
Meanwhile, the government remains committed to ending the sale of new petrol and diesel cars by 2030, and with hybrids to follow in 2035.
We Should Scrutinise the Bill
There are constitutional vandals in this parliament. But those of us wanting to scrutinise the Assisted Dying Bill in the Upper House are not among them.
The Ministry of Don’t Ask, Won’t Tell
The state can either measure the relationship properly, or it can keep pretending that refusing to measure it is ‘responsible’. One of those choices builds trust. The other builds resentment. And resentment, unlike spreadsheets, does not stay missing for long.
Letter from the North
How much further down the gurgler can the UK go? Democracy is under threat.
Labour Has Gone Beyond Lying To Bullshitting
At some point over the last 18 months, I suspect the government moved from lying to bullshitting without giving fair warning. We thought we were playing football then it began to play rugby, and since it has the ball on loan until 2029 there isn’t much we can do about it.
Will There Be a Counter Revolution?
Could this happen in New Zealand? Is this what is needed to rid ourselves of the long shadow that the now exiled Jacinda Ardern and her radical Labour government cast over our country?
A Skin’ead Record? Yer Nicked, Sunshine
The UK’s two-tier police state will jail you for Oi! records.