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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…
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…
Exclusive: Biden admin practically begging DoD employees to volunteer for border detail
The Biden administration has twice extended the deadline for federal employees to volunteer for months-long deployments at the US-Mexico border,…
Does the UK's 'green list' for travel make sense?
International travel is back on the menu, in theory. From 17 May the ‘stay in the UK’ restrictions are lifting…
Liz Cheney must go
Liz Cheney is bad for the Republican party, which is why the pro-Democratic media is so obsessed with her. What…
Merkel is right to reject Biden's vaccine patent plan
She handed the vaccine procurement process over to the European Union. She didn’t invest much in new production. And she…
Hartlepool meltdown: best of the left round-up
Oh dear. Labour’s loss of Hartlepool on a 16 point swing to the Tories has not gone down well with…
Boris shouldn't take the red wall vote for granted
There are two popular reactions to the Hartlepool by-election, which one you favour depending largely on your political tribe. The…
Labour is doomed whether Starmer stays or goes
So the Conservatives have won the ‘pools, as we used to say of jackpot winners before the advent of the National…
Can Starmer reverse the horror of Hartlepool?
The Tory victory in Hartlepool, with a swing of 16 per cent and the biggest increase in a governing party’s…
How much trouble is Starmer in?
Keir Starmer is facing a rocky few days as the party’s results from the local elections start to come in.…
Why do journalists keep repeating the same mistake?
A single mistake in journalism can be forgiven. Perhaps the story was based on faulty information from a bad source…
Who likes Kamala Harris?
Vice President Kamala Harris is not historically very popular. Her approval rating rarely topped 40 percent during her campaign in…
Don’t worry, the Central Intersectional Agency is watching you
A regular column by an anonymous whistle-blower operating deep within heart of the Social Justice Movement. To protect their identity,…
Why the Hartlepool election result doesn’t really matter
Ah, Hartlepool. The by-election there brings back memories: I am old enough to have reported on the last one, back…
The Chauvin team’s attempts for a retrial are going nowhere
The trial of Derek Chauvin continues to generate headlines — weeks after the former Minneapolis police officer’s April 20 conviction…
The 'Covid deaths' which are not caused by Covid
Registered Covid deaths fell to just one on Monday, leading many to comment that the epidemic in Britain is effectively…
Scottish nationalism is no better than any other kind
Even the Americans are noticing Nicola Sturgeon now and if you are – like many nationalists – the kind of…
Facebook keeps Trump on the naughty step…for now
The Facebook Oversight Board has reached a decision on Donald Trump…kind of. The tech company’s ‘Supreme Court’ is upholding the…
How Labour will spin defeat in Hartlepool
Campaigning in the Hartlepool by-election is reaching its feverish final hours as the Labour party tries to hold onto the…
