Is the reshuffle the answer to Labour’s woes?
More than 24 hours after he started trying to reshuffle his shadow cabinet, Sir Keir Starmer has finally got what…
The SNP has no mandate for a second referendum
Tom Bradby got them started. On Friday night, the News at Ten anchor opined that ‘if the SNP can assemble…
Budget 2021: the dregs of the Labor party
At the start of the seventies, Kim Beazley Senior told an ALP conference “When I joined the Labor Party, it…
Defeated Labour councillor: ‘The voters have let us down’
With dozens of Labour councillors defeated across the country, the recriminations and inquests have already begun. Various reasons have been…
Laurence Fox loses his deposit
The London election results have finally been declared and it turns out the poll were not lying: Laurence Fox is…
How Boris can beat the SNP at their own game
The re-election of a pro-independence majority to the Scottish Parliament shows that the next five years will be dominated by…
How to dip into political philosophy
Beneath the polarized political spats that characterize the national conversation, there is a surprising degree of consensus between left and…
Who is more upset about Labour’s results: Starmer or the BBC?
It’s not just the Labour Party which is institutionally incapable of understanding why the Conservative Party kicked the hell out…
Why did the government listen to Sage’s doomsday outlook?
Professor Neil Ferguson struck an unusually optimistic tone this week. With just one Covid death reported on Monday, and infection…
But it’s for your own protection…
Let’s face it. Our federation is a mess. Premiers are running their own shows, all to varied receptions, the Prime…
Spectator Australia TV: How can we get woke theories out of schools?
From nappies to mini Greta Thunbergs, the leftist lunacies of Australian schools must cease. The most vulnerable must be protected…
Covid and borders: Pharaoh or Moses?
When I first told my grandmother Audrey)that I was going to emigrate to Australia from England she told me that,…
The London mayoralty needs to be reformed
Who does a capital city belong to? In the case of London tonight, one answer could be ‘Labour’, now that…
Sturgeon wins a resounding victory — and a mandate for indyref2
The Scottish election is over but the battle for the winning narrative has only just begun. Clearly, in the eyes…
Labour recriminations begin: Angela Rayner sacked as party chairman
The local election results are not over yet but the recriminations in Labour over the party’s bad results are already well…
Why ‘doing God’ is good for democracy
“We don’t do God” So said Alistair Campbell, communications director to the former British prime minister Tony Blair, to end…
Andy Burnham makes life more difficult for Starmer
As Keir Starmer spends the weekend working out how exactly to bounce back from disappointing results for his party in the…
Andy Street’s success is part of the English political realignment
Andy Street won the West Midlands mayoralty in 2017 by the slimmest of margins, with 50.4 percent of the vote…
The ‘mandate wars’ won’t be resolved anytime soon
So what does it all mean? The first thing to bear in mind is that more than one thing may…
Can the UK government navigate the SNP’s calls for a second referendum?
The Unionist tactical voting in Scotland makes it tempting to see the country as split down the middle between pro-independence…
Welsh Labour proves again it’s a distinctive, winning brand
After the news of a Tory landslide in Hartlepool was announced early Friday morning, senior Welsh Labour figures were worried.…
Keir Starmer can’t afford to wait for the Tories to defeat themselves
‘We’re trapped between the two worlds,’ said a Labour worker during the last days of the party’s ill-fated Hartlepool by-election…
Bill Shoten, stopped clock
“I tell you that there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous ones who…
Best exotic Victorian hotel
Could there be a more perfect metaphor for not only the multiple failures of the Andrews Labor government but also…
