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Paul Ovenden is someone we did not need to hear from again. He could have spent his time over Christmas reflecting on what cost him his job ...

Here is a story that won't stick in the headlines for more than a day. David Lammy has unveiled plans to curtail the right to jury trial...

Rachel Reeves hasn't had a good time lately. From the left, she's been (correctly) pilloried for putting the screws on pensioners. T...

As the snow blankets the country, Keir Starmer has been buried under an avalanche of advice. This is normal for any leading politician at th...

There's been a lot of rubbish written in the right wing press about the budget and the changes made to farmers' inheritance liabili...

Writing in the Sunday Times , Kemi Badenoch has set out her vision of what government would look like if she becomes Prime Minister. The pr...

I read Rachel Cunliffe's review of two books about the general election with interest. The article's title, 'How Labour won - a...

Keir Starmer gave a conference speech typical of him. There were the nods to "service". There was the ( unfounded ) election trium...

This week we learn 70 economists have sent Keir Starmer a letter decrying Labour's future spending plans. This comes after Rachel Reeve...

Tuesday saw the rolling out of the Ultra Low Emission Zone to all the boroughs of Greater London. Inherited from Boris Johnson and, once upo...

Is the next Labour government going to do nice things? A lot of social media users took the latest Jon Elledge piece as offering a big yes ...

Reading Shlomo Avineri's Hegel's Theory of the Modern State was a shaming experience. Not having read Hegel nor ever likely to do s...

No one wants people to cross the Channel in dinghies and small boats. Except perhaps the Tories, because they think it plays to their stren...

We saw the other day their ham-fisted efforts at trying to make political capital from Keir Starmer's appointment of Sue Gray as his ne...