We have a new Prime Minister. Turns out the Tories weren’t in a mess after all- where the Labour leadership contest has effectively taken around 9 months and may end in a bloody party break up, the ...
Read more: The 5 likely paths for Brexit
I’m not your classic Blairite. I understand, and have argued against, some of the key problems with Blairism. Labour’s right has, for several decades now, been guilty of talking down to people ...
Read more: A Defector's Tale
Had enough of referendums? If so, you are out of luck.
In fact, for those concerned about political and economic contagion throughout the EU caused by the outcome of the UK’s ...
Read more: Referendum II - an Italian Horror Story
On 23 January 1593, at the age of 40 and having been a convinced Protestant all his life, King Henri IV of France, renounced his faith and became a Catholic. He did this with the (possibly ...
Read more: Well Worth a Mass
In 2009 I was 15 and never had a girlfriend, my only real love was Graham Dorrans and the closest I got to any sort of exhilaration was seeing him score goals for fun against the likes of Scunthorpe ...
Read more: Why Labour needs to grow up
Like many people I extremely concerned about the ability of our children and grandchildren to be able to live in many areas of the UK. Property values are such that owning a home is beyond the ...
Read more: The Housing Crisis: What Should Be Done?
On the 23rd of this month, I will be voting to Remain in the EU. I believe in the British economy is stronger in Europe, and the freedoms and benefits EU membership gives us as citizens is unique and ...
Read more: Why I believe we're stronger in
Yesterday a dedicated public servant, a humanitarian, and a mother of two was brutally murdered on the streets of her constituency. Jo Cox was a rising star in Westminster, and in the Labour party, ...
Read more: How could we let our politics get this toxic?
Before anyone gets angry about the EU referendum I'd just like to say I'm firmly in. Any Brexiters amongst you should feel free to disagree, you're entitled to your opinion as it's a democracy we ...
Read more: Why I'm voting to Remain in the EU
Since The Thick of It ended in 2012, we’ve been a bit stuck for political comedy. Finally we may have a solution in new YouTube comedy Spads.
The comedy follows two groups of spads in the ...
Read more: Spads - a brilliant new political comedy
This article was also published in Rob Francis's blog
In the 1960s and 1970s, the British government forcibly expelled around 2,000 residents of Diego Garcia, an island in the Indian Ocean, in order ...
Read more: Jeremy Corbyn and the Falklands
The Leave campaign has argued that membership of the EU limits the sovereignty of Parliament. But is this true? And what does it mean to be "sovereign"?
In advance of June's referendum on the ...
Read more: Is Parliament sovereign?
North Korea is now green, or at least that’s what the state propaganda machine would have you believe. According to Central TV, the secretive regime’s government controlled broadcaster, North ...
Read more: What's Kim up to?
I think it’s only right that a man who dons a Santa hat, heads to his local shopping centre and shakes a donation bucket for Syrian refugees, deserves a semblance of respect in the wake of the ...
Read more: Corbyn the Avenger
‘Out of school education settings: call for evidence.’ My submission to the consultation sent to the Department of Education …
Worrying times are before us. In future years we will look back at ...
Read more: Limits to freedom of religious belief and expression
Will Simpson is an administrator and writer at Soft Left Politics. Follow Will on Twitter @WillSimo22
Most of the election results are in, official or otherwise. Devastation in Scotland. ...
Read more: What the Results Mean for Corbyn
Most of Thursday’s results are now in. They paint a confusing picture, and have very complex implications. They are, in a way, anti-climactic: the contests went broadly as the pollsters had ...
Read more: Thursday's Winners & Losers
The 2015 General Election was the election when housing came to the fore. In the run up to election and in the months following, it became increasingly clear that Britain is in the grip of a housing ...
Read more: Will Cameron's Starter Homes Solve The Housing Crisis?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSTTR6kDTas
Justice secretary Michael Gove, the co-convenor of the Vote Leave campaign, has set out his vision for the trading relationships the UK would have if it ...
Wednesday’s debate between a wide assortment of GOP contenders left plenty to be desired. That is if you tuned in expecting a highbrow policy discussion. Policy proved off-topic for Trump et al, as ...
Read more: Thoughts on last week’s GOP debate
New Train Lines To Connect All of London
The Crossrail Project commenced in 2012, and since then, it has run its own version of the London Marathon, with 26 miles of new tunnels being created ...
Read more: The London Crossrail Project
The Panama Papers is the biggest leak in history, certainly in terms of size. What we know at the moment is just the tip of the iceberg; this could be the biggest in terms of magnitude too. As ...
Read more: The Panama Papers: The Biggest Leak In History
Who is Ben Carson? This the question perplexing unsuspecting politicos across the globe as the race for the GOP nomination heats up. World-renowned pediatric neurosurgeon, and subject of his own ...
Read more: The man who would be king
The Republican Party is imploding right before our eyes. Having defied political gravity by maintaining a consistent lead in the national polls throughout the course of the last nine months, it is ...
Read more: Kasich: The last hope for the GOP
The Duke of Wellington said: “all the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don’t know from what you do; that’s what I called ‘guessing ...
Read more: The Tory Gameplan and how to beat it
The sugar tax was the shock announcement in today’s budget. Floated for years by politicians and commentators of every colour, it’s a mixed bag. On the one hand, it could have a severely positive ...
Read more: Budget 2016: The Sugar Tax
The British PM, David Cameron, has claimed that he has evidence that the Assad regime in Syria has used chemical weapons against its own people in breach of international law(1). He claims, such ...
Read more: Syria: “The solution has got to be law – not war.”
We may be weeks away from Remembrance Sunday, but a great deal has been written today about Jeremy Corbyn and a poppy. Will he wear red, or will he wear white? There is even talk about a Labour ...
Read more: Corbyn and the Poppies
A Corbyn victory could end the Labour party, and set the wider labour movement back decades. Part of the following article is based on the fact Corbyn’s electoral strategy is fundamentally flawed, ...
Read more: The Nasty Party?
