Ripping up the Withdrawal Agreement is a big mistake
Like most things Brexit related, it depends on who you believe. The EU is concerned over the announcement that the…
Extinction Rebellion's newspaper stunt has backfired badly
I believe that halting and if we can, reversing man-made climate change is one of the most important challenges facing…
Is Boris pushing for a socialist Brexit?
One of the main things that’s holding up an UK-EU trade deal is the demand that the UK sticks to current…
Ed Davey can make the Lib Dems liberal again
It seems as though Layla Moran’s offer to make the Lib Dems ‘more radical than Labour’ has been decisively rejected.…
Why Keir Starmer no longer needs to fear the left of his party
John McDonnell, Corbyn’s right hand man for four and a half years, was full of praise when asked about the…
Keir Starmer would be wise to avoid a Lib Dem alliance
The myth that is developing goes like this: Labour can’t win enough seats to form a majority government at the…
Layla Moran will kill off the Lib Dems. But I still want her to win
Make no mistake: Layla Moran’s Lib Dem leadership platform is terrible. She wants to scrap Ofsted, stop publishing league tables of…
Is it time for the Lib Dems to merge with Labour?
Voting opens this week for Lib Dem members to choose the next leader of their party. One figure has overwhelmingly…
'Rishinomics' could cost the Tories the next election
A truism is emerging that the Tories’ massive public spending has left Labour politically with nowhere to go. This quasi-social-democrat…
Starmer has exposed Corbyn the coward
Being a radical feels nice. You get to think you’re a morally superior being in a society full of evil-doers…
Could Corbynites infiltrate the Lib Dems?
It’s funny how politics works. This time last year, the talk was of whether Labour moderates should leave their party…
Labour’s path to victory lies in destroying the Lib Dems
It has become a truism that there are not enough liberal voters to get Labour a majority at the next…
In defence of free markets in the time of coronavirus
One of the dominant political themes of the moment is that the big state, alongside either a high tax and…
How the Labour party ran out of ideas
After losing the leadership contest in April, the left of the Labour Party regrouped. Organising as part of old factions…
The Lib Dem leadership race is descending into farce
In the midst of the coronavirus crisis, the finer details of the contest to choose who will be the next leader…
