UKIP isn’t poised the vanish into thin air and disappear completely from British politics, but the party might be over. History lecturer Paul Nuttall will struggle to stop its rise …
I was a student at the LSE when Barack Obama became the new president of the USA. The day of his inauguration, I went to the campus bar along with …
Unionism looks set to tumble into the same quagmire over Brexit as it did three decades ago during protests against the then Anglo-Irish Agreement. The two main Unionist parties have …
Harlow generally, and often unfairly, gets a bad press. Recently I was obliged to spend many waking hours in the Princess Alexandra Hospital in the town. I wasn’t there on …
When I started writing this column 12 years ago we had a Labour Government, Tony Blair was in power and the National Health Serice was struggling to survive under the …
T here is no doubt that concerns about the impact of the free movement of Labour in Europe played a large part in the Brexit referendum result. It would therefore …
The Chancellor’s Autumn Statement to the House of Commons on November 23 came in the context of failure, as a recent leaked Treasury document shows. Six years ago, the government …
Maybe if you were there for the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement you would have seen something that I missed. Maybe you wouldn’t have seen a feeble, bloodless etiolated rake thin stand-in …
Foreign visitors to Cuba are lucky if they even get to glimpse a Castro, let alone meet one. On my very first trip to the island, I got lucky. Before …
Watch that man Regular Tribune columnist and shadow minister for voter engagement and youth affairs Cat Smith has been cleared of cheating on her election expenses. In May, an investigation …
Lady Midnight Prime Minister Theresa May has been given an object lesson on her personal standing with the US president-elect. May, who weighed in with criticism of Trump after his …
I’m going into the pollster business. I’m a natural: I couldn’t with any confidence even forecast the outcome of a single-candidate election in North Korea where the only vote was …
The first and last time I met anti-elitist champion-of-the-downtrodden, former city trader Nigel Farage was after a talk I gave at Dulwich College, the South London public school which is …
At least the Clintons are consistent. They maintained a serene sense of entitlement almost to the end of the election night count. They had explained that the cancellation of the …
This column is, for now at least, a Trump-free zone. Although the US president elect’s shadow will loom over Westminster for the foreseeable future – if we have a future …
“I will be president for all Americans.” Donald Trump “We are now all rooting for his success in uniting and leading the country.” Barak Obama “American Psycho” Front page of …
Amber Rudd was a public schoolgirl at Cheltenham Ladies’ College, learning how to conduct herself in polite society, when thousands of striking miners gathered in south Yorkshire to picket Orgreave …
We should now be celebrating the election of the first socialist president of the United States of America. But the rightwing fixers in the Democrat establishment sabotaged Bernie Sanders’ attempt …
The United States has elected its most dangerous leader in long memory, perhaps recorded history. It is no exaggeration, given the nature of Donald Trump’s campaign, his avowed policies, hatreds …
“Free Trade” was the one colour that all Brexiteers nailed to their mast. Reckless gambles on finding a bright new world outside the European Union demand a successful trade policy. So what is Labour …
Democratic Unionist leader and Stormont First Minister Arlene Foster used her party’s annual conference to signal what will be the end of the DUP by 2021 – the centenary of …
Against a bleak political backdrop, when even Tory MPs are protesting against Government changes to benefits, the announcement of an increase to the living wage should be cause for celebration. …
So much for Theresa May’s acclaimed Downing Street speech in July before she walked into No 10 as Prime Minister. The address to the nation didn’t get off to an …
