Nick Tyrone

Why liberals ignored the grooming gang scandal

18 June 2025 3:28 pm

For many years, liberals refused to talk about the grooming gangs scandal. The systematic sexual abuse and rape of hundreds,…

Zia Yusuf’s departure spells trouble for Reform

6 June 2025 6:16 am

Zia Yusuf has quit as Reform Party chairman. Nigel Farage and other power brokers within the Reform fold took to…

Why this centrist dad is (probably) voting Reform

9 May 2025 10:06 pm

I am a liberal, centrist dad Remainer. I desperately wish we could rejoin the European Union. I really don’t like…

Reform’s rise seems unstoppable

2 May 2025 4:38 pm

The Reform party has won the Runcorn and Helsby by-election. It was announced this morning that they had captured the…

Ed Davey’s Lib Dems need to grow up

1 April 2025 10:10 pm

The Liberal Democrats launched their local election campaign yesterday in what has become their fashion: not with a serious speech…

Reform’s rockstar rally should trouble the Tories

31 March 2025 9:27 pm

The Reform Party’s local election campaign launch in Birmingham was more rock concert than political rally. Thousands of the party’s…

Should the Lib Dems be conservative?

30 October 2024 1:43 am

Having won 72 seats at the general election, political pundits have been asking what the Lib Dems are going to…

Sunak’s summer election gamble is bound to backfire

23 May 2024 5:19 pm

The general election we’ve all been waiting for has finally been called. The Prime Minister announced the election date –…

After last night Sunak is heading for electoral wipeout

16 February 2024 5:06 pm

And so Keir Starmer’s bad week comes to an end, just like that. Labour has won two by-elections in a…

Losing Tamworth and Mid-Bedfordshire is a disaster for Sunak

20 October 2023 7:15 pm

What an epically horrible night for the Conservative part, one of the worst in the party’s long and storied history.…

Where ‘Rejoiners’ are going wrong

25 September 2023 11:02 pm

‘Rejoiners’ – who want Britain to once again be a part of the EU – took to the streets of…

Does the Somerton victory mark the return of the Lib Dems?

21 July 2023 4:39 pm

Set against the expectation of a triple by-election defeat, last night will be seen as cause for optimism by some…

Why aren’t the Lib Dems doing better?

25 January 2023 12:13 am

This weekend, the Liberal Democrats announced that they are mounting a ‘blue wall’ offensive, a campaign aimed at affluent voters…

Why the Lib Dems want Boris back

21 October 2022 10:26 pm

Suddenly, out of the blue, comes a saviour. The Lib Dems have failed to capitalise on the downfall of Liz…

It's time to take the Lib Dems seriously again

17 December 2021 8:49 pm

As far as seismic by-election results go, North Shropshire is one for the ages. The Tories had held onto the…

The Lib Dems’ Vince Cable China problem

28 July 2021 6:18 am

Last night, Vince Cable appeared on Nigel Farage’s ‘Talking Pints’ segment on GB News. This, if you haven’t seen it,…

Why are Labour MPs excusing Cuba’s authoritarian regime?

16 July 2021 2:37 am

Thousands have taken to the streets in Cuba this week to protest against the authoritarian government that rules over them.…

Why Labour should stick with Starmer – even if he loses Batley

28 June 2021 8:19 pm

Things could be bleak for Labour in the Batley and Spen by-election this Thursday. Throughout an ugly and dispiriting campaign…

Keir Starmer is alienating both sides in the Brexit debate

15 June 2021 10:32 pm

What is it with Labour and Brexit? An issue that during Theresa May’s premiership looked like it could rip the…

Sadiq Khan’s victory is good news for the Tories

11 May 2021 3:30 pm

Sadiq Khan is here to stay. London’s mayor has suggested he wants to stay on until 2040. But is this really good…

London's mayoral election is an embarrassment

23 April 2021 9:27 pm

Count Binface, a man who claims to be a 6,000-year-old ‘independent space warrior’, is running to be London mayor. In…

Momentum's cunning plan would keep the Tories in power forever

11 April 2021 3:45 pm

Momentum, the Labour campaign group dedicated to keeping Corbynism alive, this week demanded that Keir Starmer commit to introducing a…

Has Starmer already missed his chance?

5 April 2021 10:00 pm

Hindsight is the easiest weapon to employ in politics — as Keir Starmer of all people should know. When you…

European nations are reasserting themselves

29 March 2021 10:29 pm

All but the most hardened Remainer will admit that the EU’s vaccine rollout has been poor. Up against the UK’s…

Nigel Farage is destroying his own legacy

27 March 2021 5:30 pm

How’s this for a terrible confession? There has always been a small part of me that admires Nigel Farage. As…