OPINION
— We were all suffering isolation for the greater good, in order to protect ourselves and our vulnerable friends and relatives, whilst Boris Johnson was himself ignoring the rules that the rest of us had to follow.
UK Politics
— Everything you need to know about Conservative leadership contests.
OPINION
— At this point in time, it might be easier for Boris Johnson to list the days when there wasn’t a booze-up in Downing Street.
Downing Street Parties
— There is a clear route out of the Boris Johnson problem for Tory MPs – namely to remove the prime minister and hope for a recovery in the polls by electing a new leader.
Analysis
— Professor Chris Grey unpicking Frost’s resignation, and arguing that it shows how Brexit events and policy are once again entirely about the toxic internal politics of the Conservative Party.
Analysis
— Backbenchers are rattling their sabres and a brutal by-election loss has made it all so much worse for Boris Johnson.
Analysis
— The libertarian Tory MPs’ revolt over new public health restrictions comes in stark contrast to their support of other draconian laws that violate human rights. We have rights by virtue of the fact that we are human, not simply because we are good citizens.
OPINION
— The UK is now at that critical point where it is about to slide into full-blown authoritarianism, presided over by an entitled clown.
Analysis
— Plans by the government to regularly overturn court decisions are the perfect way to avoid accountability, undermine independent scrutiny and weaken the role of the courts in holding the government to account.
Brexit
— Brutal but fair, Professor Chris Grey’s Brexit analysis of the strange case of Thatcherite Brexiters and the incoherent post-Brexit strategy their misunderstandings of markets and regulation have led to.
Brexit
— Boris Johnson’s reputation may have reached a tipping point, but ‘Brexitification’ is pervasive and nowhere more evident than in the vile politics of the cross-channel migration tragedy.
OPINION
— What the Tories are getting with Boris Johnson is precisely what they should have expected they were going to get. He’s incapable of change and as such is a perfect figurehead for a corrupt and shambolic Westminster which is incapable of reform.
Analysis
— There are important similarities between the current PM’s woes and John Major’s – but a very important difference, too.
OPINION
— The eyes of the world saw a British Government desperately trying to evade democratic scrutiny and oversight as it helped to water down vital resolutions on the future of the planet. The Conservatives have trashed the UK’s international reputation.
Analysis
— Own Paterson has now resigned but the damage caused by MPs voting to block an independent decision has already been done.
OPINION
— In the next independence referendum campaign, the Conservatives and their anti-independence allies will flood Scotland with billboard campaigns and social media advertising paid for with dark money sourced outside Scotland.
