Why Starmer is courting TikTok influencers
Some of my oldest and dearest school friends absolutely hate reading the news. One called me up nearly a week…
Good Lords: the House is losing some of the best
Keir Starmer has not been the luckiest general. But, in one respect, he has bested Napoleon. The Duke of Wellington…
Nigel Farage was the spending review’s real winner
When chancellors approach a major moment like a Spending Review, they tend to have a figure in their mind’s eye…
The disposable vape ban has changed nothing
I felt a mixture of annoyance and relief when I bought my first non-disposable Elf Bar last weekend, ahead of…
The welfare select committee is wasting its time
The Work and Pensions Committee’s recent safeguarding report reminded me of the worst thing about working in politics: other people…
Labour and the Tories are both to blame for two-tier justice
If ever there were a week for me to commit a crime, this was it. The Sentencing Council – which…
Why did I bother getting a job?
It was an ominous start to the day of Rachel Reeves’s Spring Statement, when she had to rush out messy,…
