Articles by Simon Campion-Brown

I had thought those televised Election interviews/debates were some way off, but – bingo! – having switched temporarily to Sky News yesterday in order to catch up on the latest on the tragedy of the Germanwings airliner crash, I was suddenly confronted by a ‘throw’ to some [...]

  I think someone said during the Daily Politics show on BBC2 yesterday – in and around the last Prime Minister’s Question Time before 7th May – that there are 43 days to go to the General Election. Despite Alex Salmond’s concerted campaign to de-stabilise the established Westminster [...]

Last time I looked out from behind the sofa there were about fifty days to go to the General Election and we’re already approaching the political equivalent of Fleet Street’s traditional annual (August) silly season for stories. During the past week we’ve had the Pub Landlord [...]

Yesterday afternoon the main UK broadcasters [the BBC, ITV, Channel Four and Sky] ‘called David Cameron’s bluff’ by announcing that they were going to proceed, as they had originally planned, with two televised electoral debates involving seven party leaders, plus one head-to-head version [...]

I’ve never hidden my limitless cynicism about those that inhabit the world of politics but, as the daily readership of the Rust soars ever-closer to the 500 million mark, for the benefit of any new readers, let me lay my heart upon my sleeve. I’ve never voted in any political election and – [...]

With the 2015 General Election campaign off to a somewhat low-key start – can anyone tell me with it has officially begun yet? – it is always comforting and reassuring to receive yet more confirmation that our political elite, and the cohorts of administrative Sir Humphreys that [...]

I had things to do yesterday morning but, despite this, fortunately found myself back home in time to settle in for Prime Minister’s Question Time as broadcast by the Daily Politics show on BBC2. We are of course now in General Election campaigning mode and it was perhaps inevitable that the [...]

Yesterday, on behalf of the cause, I made a point of watching BBC2’s Daily Politics at noon, then the first programme in Michael Cockerell’s four-part series on Inside The Commons at 9.00pm, followed by the first episode of Rory Bremner’s Coalition Report at 10.00pm. The latter two are part [...]

We are told – and I have no reason to disbelieve it – that from today there are exactly 100 days to go until the 2015 General Election. Inevitably, the average punter like me gains most of his impressions about what is going on in British politics from the radio and television. I prefer the [...]