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It's now a couple of weeks since the far right's racist rampages abated, and the government's polling on handling the pogroms h...

Not that many people care, but what are the Conservative Party saying about the far right's riots? Not much if the official Twitter feed...

Barely a month in and we're already at a pivotal moment for Keir Starmer's premiership. In many ways, this last week's worth of ...

After forecasting that the demise of the Tories would see an uptick in far right street activity, we haven't had to wait long. Unfortun...

In the heavy blizzard of announcements and meetings last week , the new government surprisingly appointed James Timpson the new prisons mini...

What drove registered Republican Thomas Matthew Cooks to make an attempt on Donald Trump's life? We will know in due course. But as nigh...

In politics, chains of causation are often fuzzy. They are subject to countervailing tendencies and the pressures of concurrent actions, mov...

The police waited until they left the Palace of Westminster. One by one, senior government figures were turfed from their ministerial cars a...

It's times like these when we see plenty of establishment hand wringing. The report into the Metropolitan Police by Baroness Louise Case...

I've never understood it myself, but left and liberal journalists paying fealty to and fancying themselves the next George Orwell are te...

Here's a photo of Boris Johnson at the leaving party of Lee Cain, the former Downing Street head spinner, in November 2020. It took pla...

One of the most annoying phrases in politics, and a favourite of Keir Starmer's, is "let me take this head on." Invariably, th...

As it happens, I had a dream about a resignation last night. Chatting in the long-demolished Newcastle-under-Lyme branch of Sainsbury's...

How badly does Boris Johnson want to remain Prime Minister? Very, is the answer. With the Metropolitan Police riding to his rescue and a th...

If these are the last days of Boris Johnson's premiership, they are as chaotic as the weeks that opened it. When news broke about a surp...

Yesterday we heard about the economic order politics , so now the crude matter of population management: Priti Patel's law and order pit...