Steve Anglesey
11 October 2024
Is Brexit really worth nine out of 10?
Boris Johnson sounded more unhinged than unleashed while defending his pet project
Read the full article05 October 2024
What about the giant hole in the roof, Keir?
A summit that avoids obvious solutions and kicks the can down the road instead? That sounds strangely familiar…
Read the full article27 September 2024
Gove’s Brexit lies pay off
Instead of being shamed and forgotten, the former Tory minister is quids-in as new editor of the Spectator
Read the full article21 September 2024
Reform’s conference was both dull and deranged
Covid conspiracies, rambling speeches and dog whistles expose Nigel Farage’s party as a deeply weird rabble
Read the full article20 September 2024
A final Brexit disaster from Lettuce Liz Truss
A Border Force blunder by the former PM is claimed to have cost Britain another £250m
Read the full article07 September 2024
Is Badenoch ditching Brexit?
The favourite to become the next Tory leader, once a vociferous Leaver, now seems loathe to mention it
Read the full article01 September 2024
Is this why Starmer is blocking Rejoin?
Is the prime minister serious about his EU red lines - or just playing a long game?
Read the full article27 August 2024
Sven: a football gent hammered by the press
The late Sven-Göran Eriksson faced scepticism and downright xenophobia from the British press but always remained a true gentleman of football
Read the full article25 August 2024
Look! Over there! Nigel Farage wants to talk about this instead of the riots!
Reform’s leader is keen to discuss a referendum on the ECHR instead. Surely it can’t be a distraction tactic?
Read the full article19 August 2024
The king is dead
The brilliant, troubling Alain Delon was at his most electric when doing nothing other than staring blankly back at us
Read the full article17 August 2024
The Brexit problems lining up for Starmer
New polls suggest support for the PM’s softly-softly stance on Europe – but for how long?
Read the full article09 August 2024
How Robert Jenrick stopped the riots
An extraordinary claim about the Brexiteer who wants to lead the Tories
Read the full article03 August 2024
Labour blow a big chance on youth mobility
The government says it’s levelling with us on the economy - so why not on the truth about a scheme demonised by Brexiteers?
Read the full article31 July 2024
A new low for Farage
His ill-informed, self-aggrandising, flame-fanning Southport video is beneath contempt
Read the full article27 July 2024
Nigel Farage MP is even worse than you thought
Clacton’s elected representative will spend the next five years dogwhistling about people who don't live there
Read the full article20 July 2024
The war against tethered bottle caps
They help the environment, but Brexiteers hate them because the idea came from the EU
Read the full article12 July 2024
Never mind the football.. let’s celebrate the end of Brexit omerta
Labour’s first steps at moving closer to the EU are welcome, and vital to counter Nigel Farage
Read the full article05 July 2024
Were you up for Rees-Mogg?
A raft of big-name Brexiteers lost their seats as Labour won a landslide victory
Read the full article04 July 2024
The nightmare is over
Fourteen years of Conservative disasters come to an end as Keir Starmer prepares to enter No.10
Read the full article04 July 2024
The big 2024 election quiz
How much do you remember about the campaign? Take our test and find out…
Read the full article29 June 2024
Why Nigel Farage will become a recruiting sergeant for a new EU referendum
Reform’s plan is to bang on about PR throughout the next parliament. But Britain had a referendum just 13 years ago
Read the full article12 June 2024
Au revoir, Françoise Hardy
The iconic French singer has died after a long battle against cancer
Read the full article07 June 2024
Nigel Farage doesn’t want to talk about the disaster of Brexit
Reform’s leader wants to campaign on immigration instead of his pet project’s failure
Read the full article01 June 2024
Have the Mail papers given up on the election and Brexit?
Instead of the Tory demise, they’re talking Geri Halliwell and Lord Lucan
Read the full article24 May 2024
Will Britain punish Brexiteer MPs at the election?
Leaving the EU won’t be a campaign issue for the big parties - but voters may think differently
Read the full article16 May 2024
Brexit’s part in the Co-Op Live fiasco
The new arena is a Great British Failure - just like leaving the EU
Read the full article11 May 2024
Brexiteers are blaming the EU for wrecking their holidays
The comical hypocrisy of right wing panic over new border schemes
Read the full article04 May 2024
Could there be a new referendum in 2024?
Sir John Curtice has laid out a convincing case for why Keir Starmer may be drawn into backing one soon
Read the full article03 May 2024
More than a little local difficulty
A disastrous set of elections leave the Tories facing an existential crisis
Read the full article27 April 2024
Power, corruption, lies and Brexit
New Order’s Bernard Sumner has nailed the problem with British politics
Read the full article20 April 2024
The Brexiteers’ retreat to abstract waffle shows they have failed
Leavers used to promise real achievements if we quit the EU - now they deal only in abstract concepts
Read the full article19 April 2024
Hope, cowardice and the EU’s youth mobility plan
A new offer is profoundly sensible - no wonder Labour and the Tories have rejected it
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