How Deep Is Your Trough?
October 5, 2024
Ennobled by Tony Blair, Lord Waheed Alli was the first ‘openly’ gay member of the House of Lords. He also claims to be an ‘openly
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Farage Backslides on Islam
September 28, 2024
(Photograph: Laurie Noble, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons) Twenty-four hours is famously a long time in politics. Presumably then, that makes a couple
Free Gear Keir
September 21, 2024
Who doesn’t love a good freebie? Taster samples at a local Tesco, free goodie bags after a tough 10km run or even a birthday party,
Letter to a Labour MP
September 13, 2024
This government needs disabusing of the idea that pensions are a “benefit”; they have been earned by many years of hard work and sometimes hardship.
Free Speech: All or Nothing
August 16, 2024
The fundamental principle of democracy is that change is effected peacefully by a vote at the ballot box, thereby removing the need for violent kicks
Time the Conservatives Honoured Their Name
August 1, 2024
The humiliation of the Conservative Party at the recent general election provides the opportunity for a fundamental refresh of what the party stands for, and
Taking Back Control
July 25, 2024
I have been spending a lot of time in reflection recently. The outcome of the general election on 4th July filled me with an abject
Calamity Joe
July 23, 2024
Despite insisting that he would stay in the battle, Joe Biden has finally realised that his time in the presidential election race is over, pulling
Lammy’s Lament
July 22, 2024
David Lammy, Britain’s foreign secretary, is a man of contradictions. Despite having studied at Harvard Law School no less, he managed to balls up some