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 ...

Liberal Democrat Newswire #210 came out at the weekend and you can now also read it in full below. But if you’d like to get future editions emailed direct to you as soon as they are published, sign up ...

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 ...

Two principal authority council by-elections this week, both Reform defences as councillors elected last May have stood down, part of a widespread trend of Reform shedding councillors. Here’s what the ...

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 ...

With the big May local election polling day nearing, there was only one principal authority council by-election this week, in Kent. Remarkably, 10 of the councillors elected for Reform last year have ...

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, ...

There were four principal authority council by-elections this week and all four saw seats change hands. All took place on Maundy Thursday, which old electoral hands will remember as a day that used to ...

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 ...