One of the regular excuses politicians trot out after their party has taken a by-election kicking is that ‘there were some local issues in play’. It’s a way of avoiding having to acknowledge that it is the party that has lost as much as the candidate, and therefore...
My go-to comfy pair of work shoes had gone mouldy under the stairs during the pandemic. And so it was that I had painful blisters from my new shoes by the time I made it into St Peter’s square, where the armed police officers, bright young thinktank bods touting...
The party conference season will shortly return to the UK for the first time in a couple of years, bringing with it the usual exodus of think tanks, campaign groups and lobbyists to the cities hosting the political gatherings. Lots of money will be spent on...
