June 5th 2024
DEBATE ME!
What is the point of the leaders’ debates? Well, that depends on which leader you are. For Keir Starmer, the point is to reinforce the central message of his campaign: we’ve changed, this country...
June 3rd 2024
Rain On My Parade
Barbara Streisand, famously, enjoyed her ‘farewell’ retirement tour so much that she repeated the experience on multiple occasions over the following decade or so. There’s always been something of the diva about Nigel Farage -...
May 31st 2024
Lodestone General Election Note - Campaign Week 1
Ruthless Inefficiency – a note from our Co-Founder and Chairman, David Wild Seasoned Labour grandees will be toasting the jurors in New York who yesterday found Trump guilty because the story of Labour’s handling of...
May 10th 2024
A Change Would Do You Good
An under-priced factor in our political system is the human need for drama. Politicians are people and people get bored. People also panic, and people also do things – sometimes - not out of rational...
May 3rd 2024
It’s almost over now
These aren’t midterms. The next time a Tory MP looks you in the eye and says ‘midterm local elections are always difficult for governing parties’ you should feel free to laugh in their face. We...
April 26th 2024
COULDN’T ESCAPE IF I WANTED TO
Schadenfreude might not be an attractive sentiment but it is an inescapably human one. There is something delicious about watching one’s opponents experience extreme discomfort. We may wish that we didn’t feel that way, but...
April 19th 2024
Caught In A Trap
Who would you ring if, at half past three in the morning, you found yourself locked in a flat by ‘bad people’ who were demanding five thousand pounds for your release? Your mum, maybe? Or...
March 28th 2024
I Gotta Have Faith
It would be easy to make a joke about how desperately Rishi Sunak needs an Easter miracle. Our Prime Minister certainly has the appearance of a man who believes he is being unfairly crucified -...
March 18th 2024
I’m Starting With the Man in the Mirror
Who should decide what counts as ‘extremism’? Is it the Party that was until recently deputy-chaired by a man who believes Sadiq Khan is an Islamist? Or the Party whose biggest ever donor says...
March 8th 2024
It that all there is?
Did you know that Jeremy Hunt and Rishi Sunak have a ‘long-term plan for growth’? It’s all very exciting. Over the long-term they are going to cut your national insurance back to zero! Yes obviously...
March 8th 2024
Take Your Performative All-Women’s Panel Elsewhere
This International Women’s Day, we’re celebrating a win for women, achieved by an all-women team. Following a recent change in regulation raising the income threshold for angel investors from £100,000 per year to £170,000, Lodestone...
March 6th 2024
SPRING BUDGET ROUND-UP
This afternoon the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt detailed his Spring Budget - only three and a half months since his Autumn Statement - and the latest in a dwindling list of set-piece milestones...
March 1st 2024
This Charming Man
“This is for Gaza” said George Galloway, as he took to the stage having won yesterday’s chaotic Rochdale by-election. A Labour loss, like this, at this point (with those polls) is remarkable. And so, whatever...
February 16th 2024
Country Roads
Today we are going to ask you to put yourself in another person’s shoes. This person is a Conservative MP. Their seat would - under normal circumstances - be considered safe(ish). On the basis of...
