Is being prime minister now an impossible job?: ‘No longer must we tolerate amateur political leaders and outdated systems of government.’
Politics
2026-05-17: The Open Rights Group's very comprehensive report on the importance of Digital Sovereignty
2026-05-16: Britain's dependence on US technology makes us vulnerable
2026-05-16
2026-05-14: Starmer's government is following the path of the recent Conservative administrations in terms of ministerial resignations
2026-05-07: There's no party that hates the working class more than Reform
2026-05-07: It's election day in the UK once again
2026-05-04: Reform's latest unhinged and hopefully illegal policy: 'if you vote Green we'll put a massive immigrant prison near you'
2026-05-01
2026-04-27
Palantir Employees Are Starting to Wonder if They’re the Bad Guys: ‘Right as they picked up the call, one of them asked, “Are you tracking Palantir’s descent into fascism?"’
2026-04-26: Tim Marshall's 'Prisoners of Geography' may help you understand the world at least a little better
2026-04-25
‘Angry Leftie women’: the real politics behind the ‘femosphere’ moral panic: ‘The question isn’t why young women are “angry.” It’s why their autonomy is being positioned as a political problem, one that is increasingly tied to immigration, birth rates, and national identity, and used to justify a broader rollback of rights’
2026-04-08
AI-generated Lego videos and Trump’s poo-bombing: welcome to the Iran-US slopaganda wars: ‘When it’s hard or impossible to identify trustworthy sources, you can choose to believe whatever you find comforting, invigorating or infuriating’.
2026-04-08: The incomprehensible events of contemporary times
2026-04-07: Legislation punishing citizens of specific nationalities for actions they didn't take is absolutely unacceptable
2026-04-05
The Guardian view on Britain’s religious right: using and abusing faith in the pursuit of power: The twisted and disrespectful abuse of faith by Reform et al in order to sow cultural division for political gain - nothing more, nothing less.
Welcome to the MrBeastification of British politics: the latest trick up Nigel Farage’s sleeve: Flashy stunts that don’t solve any of the country’s underlying problems.
2026-04-04: Policy reactions so far to the oil crisis
2026-04-03: The British Home Secretary's lust for the panopticon
2026-03-22: Timothy Snyder on why the No Kings protests are important
2026-03-21
Britain is sliding towards billionaire politics: Is Labour too timid to stop it?: ‘The conditions that allow extreme wealth to dominate politics, such as rising campaign costs, sophisticated digital campaigning, and weak transparency rules, are present here too’.
GB News has become Reform TV and no one stopped it: Yet another example of Britain’s regulators proving entirely inadequate.
2026-03-21: A short visual history of US interference with Iran
2026-03-08
New Employment Rights Act ‘a huge boost for women in the workplace’: A rare bright spot in the smorgasbord of disappointment from the UK’s Labour government.
2026-02-27: The Greens win the Gorton and Denton by-election by a whopping 12 percentage points
2026-02-22: From NPR: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is urging broadcasters to air more …