Green Shoots?

Does the election of Keir Starmer and the ascension to Democratic nominee of Kamala Harris signal a brighter future for two of the West's landmark democracies?

Britain's Ticking Time Bomb

If you're wondering why everything feels pretty rubbish, it's because it is pretty rubbish. The last fifteen years, ever since the 2008 Financial Crash, have been like the world's most depressing surfing contest, with wave upon wave of crisis and upheaval following one another.

Huw Edwards: Britain's Broken Press

In the aftermath of the Philip Schofield saga, Britain collectively rolled its eyes when The Sun published allegations that an unnamed BBC presenter last week had paid a young person £35,000 for sexual content, beginning when they were 17. As with all stories where the details are vague – and

Threads: Twitter's Heir Apparent

As I suggested last November, it now looks pretty certain that Twitter will indeed be the next major tech collapse.

5 Tips For Having A Great Wedding

As some readers may know, I got married last month. Whilst it was a quick turnaround by modern standards – six months from booking to the big day – it wasn't ludicrously fast. Having heard endless horror stories about weddings, namely around the costs, the stress and things going wrong,

Local Elections 2023: Winners and Losers

One would be forgiven, if watching BBC News' coverage of the UK 2023 local elections, for believing that the outcome was troubling for The Labour Party. An oddly funereal studio anchor in a dark grey tie stared vacantly into the camera in apparent disbelief. These elections did not go

The Rise and Fall and Rise of the Dumbphone

Why Gen Z's rebellion against digital connection can only be a good thing.

Newcastle United are here to stay

It was a familiar sight as Newcastle United departed Wembley having lost 2-0 to Manchester United in the Carabao Cup Final - as familiar as a cup final loss can be for a club that made their last Wembley appearance at the end of the last millenium. Newcastle lost 2-0

ChatGPT: The Future or a Fad?

Is ChatGPT the future? Are artificial intelligences going to leave us all unemployed? Let’s take a look.

6 Shows To Watch This January

Time to beat the January blues...

Is the NHS about to collapse?

Let's take a look at how broken the NHS currently is, how it got like this, and whether there's any hope for its revival.

Learnings from 2022

I don't know about anyone else, but I'm exhausted. But maybe that's okay?

Mastodon: Perhaps I was wrong?

Maybe, just maybe, there's hope for Mastodon as a Twitter replacement after all.

Will Twitter be the next big tech collapse?

Friends Reunited. MySpace. Twitter? It took a while to finally complete, but Elon Musk has purchased Twitter as I discussed back in April. Despite attempting to pull out of the deal, then being forced back into it, Musk strode into Twitter's offices on 28th October as its new

Leaving Plague Island

Life in Britain today is tough. If only I'd known sooner, then I could have cut back on my consumption of Starbucks and avocados.

Britain Burns As Tories Bicker

It's perhaps been the most tumultuous week in British political history. Let's take a look and what's happened.

Just who is Simon Clarke?

Why is this Conservative MP connected to Ukrainian and Russian business? And just who are the Stalbury Trustees?

Is Jeremy Hunt the last chance saloon for Liz Truss?

The U-turn arrived in dramatic fashion. Kwasi Kwarteng was summoned back from Washington to be fired, just hours after guaranteeing he wasn't going anywhere.

Can the Tories change leader?

Even by the standards of recent months and years, the speed with which U-turns, plots and rumours are streaming out of Westminster is unprecedented.

This is England

I moved to England in October 2008. Having grown up in Northern Ireland, I was very aware of what murmuring civil discontent looked like. I was aware of how sectarianism could rear its ugly head at any moment. I had also grown up with New Labour in government from the

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The Art of The Bluff

Where next for the Tories?

A look at where the Conservative Party go next after an utterly disastrous first month of the Liz Truss premiership.

Britain Sets Itself On Fire (Again)

It is a truly staggering achievement for any British Chancellor to make a policy announcement so detached from reality that it immediately tanks the British Pound. It is surely an achievement unsurpassed in British political history to do so just days after taking office. Enter Kwasi Kwarteng, and his unique

The Road Not Taken

Why Charles Represents an Opportunity for the Monarchy, Progressives and the Left If you've been in a coma, you might have missed the news of the passing of Queen Elizabeth II. Otherwise, it's impossible for the news to have slipped you by. Britain's monarch

Truss' Energy Cap Is Economically Illiterate

In events that would have seemed beyond impossible in 2015, Liz Truss became Prime Minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland yesterday. Buoyed by some genuinely incredible front pages (see below), the "dregs of the Conservative Party" had completed their inexorable, desperate rise to the top. For those