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Reluctant as I am to return to the cause of our current political paralysis [Brexit, a hung House of Commons, the Tory party leadership election and Labour’s crisis over items such as Leave/Remain, anti-semitism and Corbyn’s leadership … and please do add your other favourite examples here] I [...]

If there is any principle or lesson at all to be taken from either ‘live political party leader candidate group debates’ or their General Election equivalent (the ‘Party leaders duke it out’), it is not just that they’re a complete waste of time, but that – as night follows day [...]

With Boris Johnson as the early runaway leader in both the opinion polls and the first round of the Tories’ stage-by-stage voting system, attention has recently turned to the inevitable next phase in which the rest of the field brave enough begin vying to stay in the race by  braying about their [...]

It’s a funny old world, but then we all knew that already, didn’t we? At the moment – well, as of midnight though things may have changed by the time I post this – yesterday we had the results of the first round of the Tory leadership contest, the Change UK party has had to change its name [...]