Short: UK Increases Defence Budget
The United Kingdom has stepped up to meet the challenge of a more dangerous world today, as Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced that defence spending will increase to 2.5% of… Read more »
Category: British Politics
Grooming Gangs and the Far-Right
Child sexual exploitation and abuse is an issue, one would expect, that all who choose to speak up on the issue would approach it with utmost sensitivity, thinking at all… Read more »
Labour’s First New Budget: The First Step
After 14 years out of government, the Labour Party has delivered its first Budget of the new Parliament, marking a significant shift in economic policy to the previous, as was… Read more »
The Morning After: A More Hopeful Day
It’s a strange feeling. There I sat at my local count, the future of Ellesmere Port and Bromborough and Chester North and Neston to be decided later that night. In… Read more »
Short: The Night Before
It’s the night before polling day, and this will only be a short article as I have to catch up on my sleep. I’ll be awake all night tomorrow night… Read more »
Post-Election: The Real Winners?
Every time a general election is held in this country, the British people are told we are at a turning point in our history, that the result of our votes… Read more »
The Leaders’ Debate: Sunak V Starmer
ITV hosted the first televised debate of this general election campaign on Tuesday, seeing Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer go head to head prior to the launch of their manifestos…. Read more »
ELECTION TIME!
It’s on. It’s finally on. After however many years that we’ve all been screaming for one, it has finally, mercifully, come at last. Rishi Sunak, on a torrential May afternoon… Read more »
“Safety” of Rwanda: A Lie in Our Law
As has been set out clearly in this blog recently, and as anyone with a remote amount of sense can tell, Rishi Sunak’s five priorities are not going well. One… Read more »
UK Politics 2024: The Story So Far
Already 2024 is shaping up to become one of the most consequential years in recent British political history, and it isn’t even Spring yet. In these brief few weeks we… Read more »