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In Houston, Biden got his teeth into Sanders

13 September 2019 4:33 pm

To the extent Joe Biden is capable of actually formulating coherent sentences – a questionable proposition – he delivered an…

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What if Elizabeth Warren blows it in Houston?

13 September 2019 4:28 am

Get your skates on! The Democrats on Ice roadshow rolls into Houston this evening, and the media are poised for…

Yellowhammer is yet another example of Project Fear

12 September 2019 10:57 pm

The Government’s yellowhammer report on planning assumptions for Brexit will go down in history as a key document in the…

Can you imagine a lobbyist against women’s rights being made a peer?

12 September 2019 8:59 pm

This is a thought-experiment. Imagine the following scenario: A Conservative Prime Minister is dishing out peerages. Among the people given…

Why is Nigel Farage being so emollient to the Tories?

12 September 2019 8:19 pm

In verbal ding dongs Nigel Farage usually gives as good as he gets. But he has been oddly restrained in…

The French city zones where police rarely escape unscathed

12 September 2019 7:11 pm

In December 2015, Donald Trump claimed parts of the French capital were no-go zones for the police. ‘Paris is no…

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John Bolton and the nationalist moment

12 September 2019 3:40 am

John Bolton has left the White House and those of us who desire some modicum of peace in this world…

Why the Supreme Court should reverse the Scottish Court’s prorogation ruling

12 September 2019 3:31 am

The Court of Session has ruled today that the Prime Minister’s advice to the Queen to prorogue Parliament, and the…

Why Tom Watson is battling to change Labour’s Brexit policy

12 September 2019 12:32 am

Why has Tom Watson given a speech about what his party leadership should do on Brexit? The party’s deputy leader…

The legal war of attrition against Brexit

11 September 2019 10:58 pm

Another week, another step along the road to Britain’s transformation into a kritarchy – rule by judges. Last week, the…

Blow for Boris as parliament may return early

11 September 2019 9:48 pm

The Court of Session’s verdict that prorogation is unlawful is a major headache for Boris Johnson. It makes the Supreme…

Labour will not endorse Remain in a general election

11 September 2019 7:52 am

Very important breaking news. Which is that trade unions, in their TULO meeting with Jeremy Corbyn, have tonight endorsed the…

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John Bolton is Trump’s latest distraction

11 September 2019 3:08 am

Donald Trump is declaring that he has fired John Bolton as national security adviser. Bolton is saying he offered to…

The three numbers that measure Britain’s constitutional crisis

11 September 2019 12:22 am

Here in a few numbers is the measure of the catastrophic mess we are in; caused by failing to resolve…

The six strangest moments from Parliament’s prorogation protest

10 September 2019 8:25 pm

Early this morning at around 2am, the Commons witnessed some of the most extraordinary behaviour seen in the Chamber in living memory,…

Who will replace John Bercow as Speaker?

10 September 2019 4:35 pm

Now that John Bercow has announced his imminent departure, an inevitable political bun fight will surely follow. The outgoing Speaker…

John Bercow’s nauseating farewell

10 September 2019 3:37 am

I didn’t think the smug triumphalism of the Remainer Alliance could get any more nauseating, but this afternoon it did.…

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We shouldn’t be surprised the mainstream left is ‘NeverTulsi’

10 September 2019 3:19 am

MSNBC anchor Chris Hayes tweeted in July what, at surface level, seems an obvious point: ‘If I were the DNC,…

John Bercow and the abandoning of the Speaker’s impartiality

10 September 2019 3:14 am

According to John Bercow he has chosen to step down on 31 October because it would be the ‘least disruptive…

How much collateral damage can the Tory party take?

9 September 2019 10:00 pm

Amber Rudd’s resignation has clearly been a blow to the government, but it wasn’t a huge surprise that she went…

Amber Rudd quits Cabinet – and the Tory party

8 September 2019 6:17 am

Amber Rudd has quit the Cabinet and resigned the Tory whip. Rudd’s departure deepens the split in the Tory party…

Tories pushing for Boris Johnson v Jeremy Corbyn TV debates

7 September 2019 7:50 pm

Boris Johnson’s best route to a majority is turning the election into a question of whether you want him or…

We’re heading for a November election

7 September 2019 12:21 am

Opposition parties will again vote against a general election on Monday. The debate between leaders of Labour, SNP, Liberal Democrats,…

Remainers may regret not backing an October general election

6 September 2019 10:46 pm

So there goes the reputation of Boris Johnson’s henchmen as cunning operators. It has been a bad week for Dominic…

Boris Johnson’s path to an early election

6 September 2019 3:32 am

Although Downing Street has heralded today the ‘first day of the election campaign’, Boris Johnson is yet to be able…