This is the objective measurement which will cause the downfall of Alexander's government ; the definitive statistical yardstick which...

Almost everybody is talking about returning to 'normal' after the pandemic, which, over most of the world, is still raging. However, the...

I hesitate about pontificating on a subject on which I know next to nothing. I cannot pronounce on the qualities of Mr. Southgate and his...

Nissan warned that a 'hard' Brexit could lead to their ceasing investment in their plant in Sunderland. Nissan is now staying. What has...

I have written about Afghanistan in previous blogposts in April or May this year, so I will not reiterate my arguments. I will only point...

Quite understandably, the Labour Party (having successfully 'managed expectations') is relieved at the result in Batley and Spen. It, and...

Get that Voting Rights Act passed ! American democracy may cease to exist unless you (and the congressional Democrats) put your...

In the Global North, coronavirus might become, with the help of mass vaccination, a 'manageable' disease, like influenza, one that, with...

Please don't whisper it: vaccination in Britain is a practical demondtration of the value of democratic socialism. The vaccine has been...

The recent collapse of the Hillsborough trial, attributed in part to failures in preparation by the CPS, and disturbing reports about the...

The byelection result in Chesham and Amersham will encourage calls either for a 'progressive alliance' or for some less ambitious pact...

The metropolitan mayor for Greater Manchester has criticised the Scottish government for imposing travel restrictions without...

John Bercow was regularly lambasted for being an overmighty, biased and interfering Speaker, especially by the Conservative Party and...

A number of apparently well-informed people are now coming to believe that a leakage from a virological laboratory in Wuhan is...

Why is there a crisis in Northern Ireland at the moment ? First, because of Brexit. If you create a border where none existed, you cause...

Here are three relevant facts about vaccines : First, Britain is stockpiling millions of surplus vaccines. Second, these vaccines have a...

The government's period of grace for private renters has now ended, and difficulties for many private renters, who can ill afford...

You have to hand it to Williamson: he lurches from catastrophe to catastrophe with a truculent insouciance, or an insouciant truculence,...

It is good to see that, finally, the government has done something which, along with the internal market, its backbenchers cannot...

Biden's fiscal proposal has the potential to tilt the balance against multinational capital and in favour of the nation state. It also...