Looking at History

  I have over the past few years deliberately avoided commenting on government policy in relation to the end of petrol and diesel transport ...

The current attempts by Watford FC to seek a new stadium as Vicarage Road is no longer fit for purpose reminds me of a similar camp...

Britain’s relationship with Europe over the past millennium has been one of ‘divide and rule’ and this has meant that we’ve fought against ...

Let me be clear from the outset that I was one of the 48 per cent who voted remain in the referendum almost two years ago.  I was also one ...

When Sir Vince Cable, having criticised the government for not clamping down on offshore tax havens trading under the British flag, added ...

The state of the West can be summed up in a series of Ds: ‘demoralised, decadent, deflating, demographically challenged, divided, disinteg...

With the Article 50 letter sent on Wednesday and the EU response yesterday, we have a (slightly) clearer idea about how the negotiations w...

After Brexit came the election of Donald Trump as the US President.  If Brexit was a shock, Trump’s election was an earthquake…no one thou...

2016, the year that the ‘commentariat’ got just about everything wrong!  It was supposed to be a victory for ‘remain’ and Hilary Clinton p...

Watching Newsnight  yesterday evening was one of the worst examples of a political post-mortem I think I’ve ever experienced.  The subjec...

One of the things that struck me particularly about last night’s Newsnight Special , was the extent to which Democrats remained in a state...

Talking to an eminent pollster this afternoon I was struck by the number of occasions she said ‘But that’s not what was supposed to happen...

Conservative MP Dominic Grieve said the criticisms over the High Court judges' decision were ‘horrifying’ and reminded him of ‘Robert ...

The High Court has ruled that the government does not have the power to trigger Article 50 - to start formal exit negotiations with the EU...

In a week’s time it will be the 950th anniversary of the one event that most people in Britain know…the Battle of Hastings.  It is no sur...

Although we’ve become somewhat jaded in our attitude to political polls, there was little surprise in JC’s victory over Owen Smith yester...

Having spent much of the past three years writing about Chartism and its importance in the development of radical working-class politics,...

In the light of the tragic murder of Jo Cox, today’s recall of Parliament to pay tribute and the break in the referendum campaign should h...

So should politicians and, if some people have their way other people in ‘public life’, choose to do what the rest of us will never be ask...

It’s easy to see why George Osborne included the changes in disability benefits in his budget last week.  By adding it to a ‘money bill’, ...