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Let Labour Shape an Administration that the UK Really Needs

Surveys since the election demonstrate that Theresa May is consistently losing support Following last week's Queen's Speech, as Theresa May tried to make an unholy partnership with the DUP to make a ...

Tories and DUP agree confidence and supply deal

The Conservatives and the DUP have finally stuck a deal that will allow the Conservatives to continue to rule as a minority government. It is understood that negotiations focussed on ...

Democracy?

The election is over and the dust has not yet settled on one of the most turbulent periods in British democratic history. In the General Election, the EU Referendum and the Snap Election we have all ...

Grenfell Tower and Cynical Conservatism

The academic Corey Robin in his book, The Reactionary Mind, argues that ‘the right is fundamentally inspired by hostility to emancipating the lower orders’ and that there is an ...

Did Trump Get a Big Tax Refund After 2005?

The pressure is growing to force President Trump to turn over his tax returns. The other day, for example, 200 Congressmen filed a suit in federal court, arguing that voters and lawmakers have a ...

'Certainty and stability' is the new 'strong and stable', and is a sign of May's weakness

There are lots of reasons why the Conservative election campaign went wrong. A few things come immediately to mind: a botched manifesto, complacency, a lack of vision, a jingoistic approach to ...

A hung parliament and a lot of disappointment. The 2017 General Election

We did actually have an article prepared for a hung parliament with the Conservatives as the largest party and popular vote winner. It was about their collapse, May’s humiliation and the ...