There are a huge number of political podcasts available for fans of the genre. Every former politician, pundit, newspaper, and journalist seems to have joined a podcast, in a phenomenon that reached fever pitch during last year’s election. It was Christmas come early for those of us whose podcast listening...
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Coventry South MP Zarah Sultana has backed calls for a new airport in the Pakistan-administered Mirpur district, just weeks after she opposed the opening of a new runway at Heathrow. Sultana, who currently sits as an Independent MP after losing the Labour whip last year, is one of 20 MPs...
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What difference does all this make to Nigel Farage, the Reform Party, and UK politics more generally? On the surface of it, not much. As I mentioned earlier, very few people even know who Mr Lowe is, and most Reform supporters have a higher regard for Farage. In short, public...
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In the past few weeks, I, and the other 13% of the population who know who Rupert Lowe is, have been shocked by the public collapse of relationship between the famously affable Nigel Farage and, Lowe, his oldest MP. How did this all start, I hear you ask. Earlier this...
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Not many political advisors ever reach public awareness. Normally they dwell in small offices in Downing Street or government departments, scurrying through the corridors of Westminster or standing silently, shadow-like, behind a Minister or Shadow Cabinet member. In fact, it is often said that once an advisor becomes the story,...
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It may be a controversial statement, but under the Conservatives, schools improved. While debates persist over the economy, inequality, the NHS, environment policy, and the rest – a debate for another day – in both real and relative terms, the education system has improved in the last 20 years. Ideas...
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