Keir Starmer has one clear and unwavering policy objective and that’s getting elected. Even if it means ditching every discernible pledge or principle, his eyes are fixed firmly on the prize. During a recent Q&A session in The Guardian he admitted that his greatest fear is failure, ‘I hate losing […] some people say it’s […]
News that Nigel Farage is contemplating leaving Britain after his bank accounts were closed has been met with a mixture of alarm, joy and indifference depending on how you feel about Mr Brexit. For those of us whose brains haven’t been entirely melted by the 2016 EU referendum, the story requires closer inspection. If banks […]
How do you solve a problem like the Red Wall? It’s a question that preoccupies both major political parties in equal measure. The Tories wonder how to keep it and Labour how to get it back. To us humble northern voters, the Westminster discourse has a curiously anthropological sound to it, as if pundits are […]
When did British politics become so deeply unserious? On a continent at war, with the price of just about everything surging, swathes of our media remain transfixed by the crucial question of ‘who ate and drank what during the pandemic?’. The circus has now arrived at Labour’s door, and Keir Starmer apparently enjoying a perhaps-somewhat-against-regulations […]
Is Labour’s new look Shadow Cabinet a government-in-waiting or a misjudged attempt to appear relevant? On a first pass, it certainly seems more likely to be the latter. Keir Starmer seems to have concluded that the best way for Labour to get back in the game is to promote some of his better known faces […]
I try my very hardest to be patient with Angela Rayner. I don’t particularly care for her politics – or the current state of the Party she represents – but for a woman from such humble beginnings to rise to the shadow cabinet is a remarkable and incredibly rare achievement. It isn’t easy leaving ‘the […]
Barbie, long lambasted for perpetuating unrealistic beauty standards and perpetuating female oppression, has gone brainy. Mattel has created a doll of the scientist who created the Oxford Covid vaccine, Prof Sarah Gilbert, as part of a range celebrating women working in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Like many things supposedly made for children, this […]
Everyone, it seems, is a bonafide expert on the Israel-Palestine conflict. There are people almost 15 years younger than me who are able to spout a wonderfully detailed account of the region dating back hundreds of years despite never having visited there and knowing absolutely no-one from the area. Humans have a propensity for morbid […]
