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Cap Doffing: Why Keir Starmer’s Child Benefit ‘Virility Test’ Will Backfire for Labour
For all the talk of putting 'country first, party second', the factional obsessions of Starmer's allies remain the biggest threat to the success of a…
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The 'Lucky General' Myth: How Keir Starmer's Opponents Are Still Underestimating Him
The Labour leader's opponents need to stop fooling themselves that he won a massive landslide victory through sheer luck
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Keir Starmer and the Beat-Sweeteners
With a new Government comes new opportunities for political journalists to ingratiate themselves with the new regime
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After the Wipeout Comes the Cope and the Hope
As Conservative politicians seek to downplay their defeat, there are real reasons to be hopeful about what a Labour Government will now bring
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June 2024

My Predictions for the Result of the 2024 General Election
Next week's elections look set to deliver the most extraordinary series of results ever seen in our lifetimes
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The Normalisation of Political Lying
The defining legacy of the past 14 years has been the elevation of political 'savviness' over honesty
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Burning Bridges
Why the same media organisations that have spent the past decade tiptoeing around the failures of the Conservative party are suddenly starting to go…
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Feeding the Crocodile: How the Rise of Faragism Now Threatens us all
The poisonous form of politics represented by the Reform Party leader is now seeping into our broader political water supply
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Is this What British Politics is About to Look Like?
Could Ed Davey and the Liberal Democrats be about to pull off the most shocking election result in modern British history?
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Is this the end of the Conservative Party?
Could the unthinkable be about to happen to the UK's longest-lasting election-winning machine?
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Managing Public Opinion
How opinion polls and the way they’re covered, can actively distort public opinion, rather than reveal it
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In Search of the ‘Good Tory’
The reaction to the downfall of Iain Dale's short-lived political career tells us a lot about how politics and media really works in the UK
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