Articles tagged UK Politics:
When Will Someone Hold Highways England to Account?
- 25 Mar 2017
Back in the 1990s the Major government embarked on a much heralded programme of hiving off government responsibilities into stand alone and stand apart agencies. The idea was to keep politics out of these agencies. Fears were expressed that they would become politically unacco...
Twenty Things We Learned From Stoke Central & Copeland
- 24 Feb 2017
What a night. I stayed up to see both results. Here are a few thoughts… UKIP’s ground operation is no match for Labour’s. Labour’s scare tactics on the NHS can backfire spectacularly. The relentless media campaign against Paul Nuttall – fueled it has to be said by Paul...
Leave Politicians Told Us Exactly What We'd Be Voting For - It's a Shame Remain Leaders Didn't, But We All Know Why...
- 19 Feb 2017
The mantra that leading Remain supporters come out with nowadays is that, while “of course” they support the democratic vote on June 23rd, we poor buggers hadn’t got a clue what we were voting for when we voted to Leave. Yes, we voted to leave the EU, but we didn’t know our “d...
My Ten Predictions for 2017
- 31 Dec 2016
A daily or Sunday newspaper ceases print publication. John Humphrys announces he will retire from the Today Programme. Labour loses Copeland by-election. Middlesbrough, Sunderland and Hull are relegated from the Premier League. 5.
EVENT: If You're in Norwich on Thursday Come & See Me Explain What Brexit Means Brexit Means!
- 12 Nov 2016
I spent four of the best years of my life at the University of East Anglia in the early 1980s. I studied German and Linguistics, and it was there that I got involved in politics. I wouldn’t be who or what I am today without the education UEA gave me. So when I was told, earli...
It Shouldn't Happen to a Radio Presenter 51: When a Scoop Slips Through Your Hands...
- 5 Nov 2016
I don’t pretend to be a journalist, but there are obviously journalistic aspects to what I do. When my blog was at its height I’d break quite a few stories, and I got a kick out of being first to do so. It happened several times. But there was always that fear that you’d be sc...
Mrs May's Cabinet Dilemmas - Whoever She Appoints, the Balance Will Be Heavily In Favour of Remain
- 12 Jul 2016
Theresa May didn’t expect to have to appoint her Cabinet until after September 9th. Instead, she has to start the process on Wednesday afternoon. It won’t be an easy task. All prime ministers seek to appoint a balanced Cabinet, but previous Prime Ministers didn’t have the Leav...
It Shouldn't Happen to a Radio Presenter 46: Interviewing George Osborne (The Man With No Post-Brexit Plan)
- 20 Jun 2016
This evening I did a 30 minute interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, on my LBC show. It’s the longest radio interview he’s done in the EU Referendum campaign. It was originally scheduled for last Wednesday but he had to reschedule, which was a pit...
Why Have I Already Received my Postal Vote?
- 28 May 2016
So, the day after purdah kicks in I receive my postal vote ballot paper. I’m not normally one for conspiracy theories, but I smell a rat. In a general election you get the ballot paper a maximum of two weeks in advance, I believe. So why is it different in the referendum? Cyn...
LISTEN: Is the TTIP Really That Bad?
- 4 May 2016
Make up your own minds, but I think it’s a democratic outrage.