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Boris has five days to make a Brexit deal
The prime minister is about to launch himself on the most important and arduous challenge of his time in office,…
Why is the EU obsessed with forcing regulatory alignment on Britain?
I still don’t quite understand the position of some ardent Remain supporters. I do not understand why allowing the UK…
It’s now or never for Boris Johnson if he wants a Brexit breakthrough
There is only one speech that matters this week, here in Manchester at Tory party conference. It will be Boris Johnson’s on…
Watch: Jacob Rees-Mogg’s revealing summary of the state of British politics
Jacob Rees-Mogg has just given a pretty accurate summary of the state of British politics. The leader of the House…
Why Boris Johnson resembles Samwise Gamgee
So what should Boris Johnson do now? Obviously the law officers are twitchy. They defer to judges and their later…
Has the Supreme Court handed Boris Johnson a Brexit escape route?
The Supreme Court’s judgement is the latest constitutional perversion after the Benn act. But ironically it may assist the Government…
Brexit voters do feel betrayed. So why can’t Boris say so?
Rarely has there been such a flagrant display of hypocrisy and cant as there was in the House of Commons…
Has Boris Johnson ruined his chances of passing a Brexit deal?
Boris Johnson’s behaviour in the Commons last night was clearly part of his strategy to set up a ‘people vs…
Why Boris Johnson should request a Brexit delay from the EU
Boris Johnson wants a general election now. Jeremy Corbyn and Nicola Sturgeon both say they want an election but not…
Is this the beginning of the end for Jeremy Corbyn?
Did Labour’s conference help or hinder Jeremy Corbyn’s chances of becoming prime minister? For some, Corbyn ended up stronger than…
Brexiteers should cheer the Supreme Court
Ignore, with great respect, the people telling you today that the justices of the Supreme Court have waded into politics,…
The truth about David Cameron’s progressive legacy
One of the downsides of all this snarking at David Cameron over Brexit is that the rest of his legacy…
How to stop a drone attack
Drones have come of age in the war on terror. When the United States and Britain invaded Afghanistan in 2001,…
It’s no surprise that Brexit looks doomed
I have a friend who insists that he takes little interest in politics. Even so, the other evening he came…
School climate strikers should answer these two questions
“The Earth is dying”, “the world is on fire”, we’re undergoing an “environmental extinction”: just three of the sentiments which…
Will the Supreme Court end the prorogation of Parliament?
At the close of Supreme Court proceedings on Thursday, there was quite a lot of to and fro about what…
What Corbyn’s Brexit policy means for a general election
Jeremy Corbyn has dashed the hopes of certain members of his shadow cabinet this morning with a Guardian op-ed in…
Why the Supreme Court’s Brexit case is so crucial
The opening session of the epic Supreme Court hearing into whether Boris Johnson misled the Queen and broke the law…
We are facing the biggest test of British democracy since 1939
It is almost 11 years to the minute since we reached the eye of the banking-crisis storm. And even though…
Britain’s political system is broken. America’s isn’t
American liberals perceive it as a jarring inconsistency: my opposition to Trump and support for Brexit. Especially outside the UK,…
Corbyn is the only unthinkable outcome in this political crisis
For something that has yet to and may never happen, Brexit has reordered the fundamentals of British politics in just…
Yellowhammer is yet another example of Project Fear
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?
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?
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
In December 2015, Donald Trump claimed parts of the French capital were no-go zones for the police. ‘Paris is no…
