Given how popular (and lengthy!) my list of Reform councillor departures after the May 2025 elections turned out to be, here is a new list, this time for councillors elected under the Reform banner on ...

Cory and Mark talk about the political film that’s probably most likely to be accidentally bought on Amazon: Pablo ...

The latest episode of Never Mind The Bar Charts features the authors of a great new book, Tribal Politics: How Brexit Divided Britain. Sara Hobolt and James Tilley discuss how the Brexit referendum ...

Earlier in the week I appeared on The Spectator ‘s podcast, Coffee House Shots, alongside Lib Dem MP Al Pinkerton and discussing the party’s prospects and ambitions in the local elections. Somehow we ...

The latest edition of my email newsletter about work in Parliament, A Lord’s Eye View, is out and you can also read it in full below. But if you’d like to get future editions emailed direct to you as ...

This leaflet for independent candidate Nick Picton comes from Cambridge, and note the pledge not to canvass any voters. Nick Picton election leaflet. The leaflet comes from ElectionLeaflets.org and ...

Following this season’s quite glorious Conservative bar chart, the Labour Party in Tunbridge Wells gives us this: A Labour Party bar chart from Tunbridge Wells. This is almost, almost but not quite, ...

An envelope. Photo by Kerngker Stock on Pexels.com. If this book were an animal, what sort of animal would it be? That is the sort of apparently absurd question beloved of media coverage of focus ...

The BBC reports that Corey Edwards’s time as a Reform election candidate is over only days after it started: A leading Reform candidate who appeared to perform a Nazi salute in a photo has quit ahead ...

Elizabeth Shields was born back in 1928 (1928!), and when elected as a Liberal MP in the 1986 Ryedale Parliamentary by-election she became the first female Liberal MP since Megan Lloyd George. So it ...

The latest episode of Political Fictions is all about governments struggling with small majorities in the 1970s: Mark and Cory talk about James Graham’s play This House. The hit play, available to ...

Here is the full text of Ed Davey’s speech to Liberal Democrat Federal Spring Conference in York. More about the nuclear deterrent policy is on the party website and in coverage from The Guardian.