Southampton and Belfast: Farage at his Worst
The UK has been rocked by two national scandals in as many weeks. The first, an incident that happened in December of last year in Southampton, the details of which… Read more »
Category: British Politics
The Catch Up: Keir and Andy
If anyone out there was a dedicated reader of International Thinking, you may have been wondering where the hell I have been this last year. If I said I was… Read more »
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 »
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 »