Forming a pact with the Liberal Democrats to form a ‘Progressive Alliance’ would make electoral sense in England – but Keir Starmer does not see it as a risk worth taking.
The public shouldn’t pay to get the ex-PM off the hook
Good Law Project || 4 min readIt’s not for the taxpayers to pick up the tab for getting the former Prime Minister off the hook. Here’s what Good Law Project are doing about the fact we all have, they think unlawfully, paid for Boris Johnson’s legal advice. And here’s why they think that legal advice is wrong.
Will Keir Starmer lead Labour back into government?
Professor Jonathan Tonge || 5 min readThere’s a mountain to climb but there are positive signs for the opposition in the first few weeks of Liz Truss’s government.
Strange times
Professor Chris Grey || 18 min readProfessor Chris Grey’s latest analysis: a big picture overview of how the Queen’s death coincides with the ever clearer failure of Brexit as a national strategy and the start of one of the most peculiar governments we have ever had.
Why Labour will resist calls for electoral alliances, even when facing the prospect of a hung parliament
5 min readForming a pact with the Liberal Democrats to form a ‘Progressive Alliance’ would make electoral sense in England – but Keir Starmer does not see it as a risk worth taking.
Why Labour will resist calls for electoral alliances, even when facing the prospect of a hung parliament
5 min readForming a pact with the Liberal Democrats to form a ‘Progressive Alliance’ would make electoral sense in England – but Keir Starmer does not see it as a risk worth taking.
Will Keir Starmer lead Labour back into government?
5 min readThere’s a mountain to climb but there are positive signs for the opposition in the first few weeks of Liz Truss’s government.
Strange times
18 min readProfessor Chris Grey’s latest analysis: a big picture overview of how the Queen’s death coincides with the ever clearer failure of Brexit as a national strategy and the start of one of the most peculiar governments we have ever had.
Mini budget 2022: Experts react to the new UK government’s spending and tax-cut plans
11 min readWhat the experts say about the way the government plans to address the energy crisis and economic growth, among other key issues.
The public shouldn’t pay to get the ex-PM off the hook
4 min readIt’s not for the taxpayers to pick up the tab for getting the former Prime Minister off the hook. Here’s what Good Law Project are doing about the fact we all have, they think unlawfully, paid for Boris Johnson’s legal advice. And here’s why they think that legal advice is wrong.
Is it safe yet?
6 min readBritain has become an insane, cruel and callous place which makes the poor pay so that the energy companies can rake in billions, a sclerotic polity which is well on the way to full-blown authoritarianism.
Notes from Normal-island
10 min readAs millions worry about keeping food on the table or keeping their homes warm, and thousands of businesses are facing collapse, people are not just mourning the Queen, they are mourning the Britain that the Conservatives have destroyed.
Liz Truss, the last PM of the “big tent” Tory party
6 min readI think the Tories are heading for a decade of strife and internecine warfare, worse than the period after Thatcher. And I think – although this is pretty speculative – that it could lead to a complete split between the two wings. Here is why.