What do we really want from our MPs? This has been the question hiding in plain sight for the past few weeks in Westminster and the country at large. The scandal around Owen Paterson’s lobbying led to a wider conversation about MPs’ second jobs, whether they should be allowed to do them and how they […]
There is one truth in politics that everyone in Westminster has seemingly forgotten about: you cannot have hindsight in real time. You can try as hard as you like, but it is not possible to guess, as if by magic, what voters will care about, how much they will end up caring about it, and […]
There is a great paradox at the heart of British politics. On the one hand, the drinking culture is pervasive, and much of life in SW1 revolves around alcoholic beverages. On the other, most drinking establishments in Westminster are appalling. The pubs near Parliament are, with no exceptions, wildly overpriced and not very pleasant to […]
