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...
January 25th 2024
DREAMED A DREAM
100 years ago this week, Ramsay MacDonald became Labour’s first Prime Minister. It was a historic moment but an inauspicious start to Labour’s journey as a party of power. For a start, MacDonald’s Labour didn’t...