All State Openings of Parliament are surreal occasions but Monday’s was more surreal than most. The eccentricities went beyond the almost Ruritarian pageantries of ...
As we wait for the Brexit impasse to be broken (or not), other things go on happening. Some may be even more important and ...
Well… were they right or were they wrong? Should they have been involved in the first place? And – right or wrong – what ...
As if politics were not chaotic and uncertain enough already, a Scottish court has ruled that Boris Johnson’s controversial proroguing of parliament is unlawful.
One thing at least seems certain: Britain’s voters are heading back to the polls for the fourth time in four years. After two elections ...
After a summer of puzzlement and frenzied speculation about how Boris Johnson was going to make good his pledge to take Britain out of ...
Democracy is under threat and that, in part, is because leading politicians are refusing to be interviewed at length, or even at all, by ...
The civil liberties lobby group, Big Brother Watch, claims that Britain is facing an ‘epidemic’ in the use of facial recognition technology in areas ...
If someone had come along, say, twenty or thirty years ago and told us that we needed to stop eating meat in order to ...
Prince Harry seems to believe that people should have no more than two children. Larger families, he implies, are incompatible with sustaining the planet ...