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 »
Category: United Kingdom
2024: The Year We Save the World?
Happy New Year! 2024 is shaping up to be a doozie. It will be a year of elections, with 50 countries going to the polls to select new leaders and… Read more »
Rwanda and Asylum: the Tory Death Knell?
It’s pretty fair to say that the current Conservative Government in the UK is not very popular. True, the past few Conservative Governments have also not been the most well-received,… Read more »
Armistice Day 2023 and the Hateful Home Secretary
The UK’s Home Secretary Suella Braverman has this week written an article in the Times newspaper accusing the Metropolitan police of double standards and bias in how protests are dealt… Read more »
20th June By-Elections: Writing’s On The Walls
The political world was graced this week by no less than 3 by-elections in England; the seats of Uxbridge and South Ruislip in Northwest London, Selby and Ainsty near Leeds… Read more »
It Was A Good Day: Trump and Johnson
After being given advance sight of the Parliamentary Privileges Committee’s investigation into him over Partygate, disgraced ex-Prime Minister Johnson has stepped down as the MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip…. Read more »
King Charles III
King Charles III was crowned last week at Westminster Abbey, the first new Monarch the United Kingdom has had in more than seven decades. The man who, for the longest… Read more »
Local Elections 2023: Bad Omens, Silver Linings
After a full day of voting and a full night of counting, the results of the 2023 Local Elections are in. 230 councils went to the polls on Thursday in… Read more »
Illegal Migration Bill: What Human Rights?
The government has proposed draconian new legislation to tackle the small boats crisis, disregarding international human rights law.
Northern Ireland and the Windsor Framework: Sunak’s Gamble
Rishi Sunak today met with the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen in Windsor, Berkshire to reach what is hoped to be the final agreement on Northern… Read more »