Martin in Montmouthshire thinks Owen Jones should condemn the attack on Salman Rushdie, presumably because if Owen Jonesdoesn’t condemn it, then Owen Jones must support it. This may be a trolling account, but I think may be indicative of how the attack on Mr Rushdie will be fitted the the…

If I was in charge of Labour’s set of energy demands apparently to be issued this week, these are the 13 things I’d go for in short, mid and longer term. ps. I should be in charge of Labour’s energy demands. Labour demand list Immediate (0–2 months) 1/ Require Ofgem…

Predicting Truss Eight long years ago, I famously [1] predicted that Liz Truss would become Prime Minister by styling herself as a new Margaret Thatcher In fact, while this is the famous [2] tweet, the use of the word “still” is a reference back to an essay I’d written…

Both the unexpected polls and the unexpected boos seem to confirm that the end for Johnson is coming quickly now or, if he survives by way of the Tories’ bizarre system and his own desperation to cling on, that the end is coming for the Tories as and when the…

This comment, attributed to a Johnson “ally”, has attracted widespread derision, for the obvious reasons of Johnson’s elite background: But I think there’s a case, assuming it’s authentic, for treating it with concern rather than derision; it’s concerning not because it’s so stupid in the context of Johnson’s own…

I received Jon Alexander’s new book Citizens, now getting quite a lot of coverage in some ‘progressive’ circles while being ignored in others, in the same week as ex-Accrington and Australia cricketer Shane Warne’s untimely death, and I ended up reading the Warne obituaries alongside the section of the book…

Now that the Johnson regime looks like it is starting to push the message that we’ve all forgotten the little transgressions we all made during lockdown, it might be useful to firm up our own popular messaging about what it was really like. At the moment, we talk about how…

Decitizening The Elections Bill has sailed through its third reading, and of course the standout section 1 contains a new requirement to produce photographic ID before you get to vote in person. This bit of legislation is probably the most Trumpian to date. It invents a problem as a way…