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The US Election - What if there's a tie?

By BILLY LUCAS - Editor-in-Chief America is a quirk. That it was built on the premise of democracy and of secularity makes it the...

Starmer’s slow and steady prosecution of Boris Johnson could win the race

The 2019 general election was a humiliating defeat for the Labour Party. ‘Red Wall’ seats in the North of England were turned to rubble

Conor Burns: is scrutiny slipping for MPs?

On 4th May 2020, Conor Burns, a Conservative MP, resigned from government after a report from the House of Commons Committee on Standards...

HS2: An Unnecessary Vanity Project?

Following a review into its cost in February, High-Speed Rail finally received government approval for construction work to begin on the...

Accountability: why all ministers must face questions amidst the coronavirus crisis

There are aspects of politics that remain crucial however awful the specific crisis is. While coronavirus has transformed so many...

Homelessness, Coronavirus and Possibility

A decade and three subsequent general elections have passed since the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition’s ascension to government...

Keir Starmer: Kinnock 2.0?

A new Labour leader has been installed after an historic electoral drubbing blamed upon a too radical manifesto and an unelectable...

Will there be no end to the reign of Putin?

With his hand on a gold-embossed copy of the Russian constitution, Putin was sworn in for the fourth time in 2018, when he promised to...

The Sunak Budget: not perfect, but promising

The 11th March was Rishi Sunak’s big day: he was to present his first budget as Chancellor of the Exchequer. The combination of his...

Biden's Super Tuesday Bounce

In the short space of less than a week, the Democratic primary election seems to have changed dramatically. In actual fact, it has...

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