Six months ago with Starmer still in office, I mused that we'd already seen peak Reform but not yet peak Green.  Since then, the cards h...

 ... it never does. Over the years I've tracked the barometer, nay, the roller-coaster of Polly Toynbee's agonisingly optimistic tak...

And so it came to pass.  Suddenly, all the fight went out of him. " I have heard the answer of my parliamentary party ... and I accept ...

But then of course there's Events ... Mandy, Trump, who-knows-what.  Starmer already has a long list of self-serving one-liners to fend ...

Toughing things out isn't quite the same as playing for time, although the latter (an intellectually very dull strategy, but often effec...

Watching Burnham's by-election purely as a spectator, I have no feel whatever for what's happening on the ground (rarely do the pund...

I'm off on a short hol, but I leave you with my view - a prediction that has been simmering for 18 months, as you know (check the Mili t...

Not as much fun as you thought? Having long suggested that Team Starmer fully intends to tough it out - and they had plenty of advanced noti...

 ... here's what happened in my manor (Croydon) in the Elected Mayor stakes: Yup, at first glance it appears Reform dented the Tories a ...

A subject we've touched on before is the stupidity of Starmer thinking that giving votes to 16- and 17-year olds will boost Labour's...

A while back I suggested Team Starmer had decided to tough it out: and I'm now utterly convinced of it.  Among several straws in the win...

First, the utterly unspeakable Hesgeth, who should by rights be languishing in a gaol somewhere for his outrageous breach of security in run...

On any other news day, this would have been another nail in Starmer's coffin.   That Special Relationship, eh? By their friends shall y...

The 'first draft of history' on this one is quite difficult to essay: the number of variables in play has been quite remarkable, and...

How would anyone summarise Starmer's most recent month's worth of self-inflicted misery?  Easy: he is accused of severe, sustained f...

That AI is currently inflating a mighty economic bubble is a commonplace observation.  A vast proportion of US economic growth (as conventio...

So what to make of the latest state of play over Mandy? I'd say it's really clear: Team Starmer is utterly determined to tough this ...

As ever, Starmer had a carefully crafted speech for deployment on Thursday.  He vehemently - very vehemently - wants us to believe that what...

The scene : a small, bare office on an industrial estate near Beijing Capital International airport.  Sitting nervously on a metal chair, nu...

Sorry, but the Macbeth idiom is irresistible.  Presumably, after a full week of letting it be understood that any move by Burnham would be s...