Are local candidates best placed to serve as constituency MPs? It’s a question worth pondering.

Mike Stafford writes about Musk buying Twitter and how free speech is still at a risk.

Former diplomat Sir Simon Fraser sets out the qualities of leadership. Unfortunately, Liz Truss has none of them.

The Conservative Party is in the grip of an unfettered identity crisis

After six weeks of self-indulgent navel-gazing, the Conservative and Unionist Party has finally belched forth another unelected prime minister. The...

Stuffing the House of Lords with placemen reveals not just Boris Johnson’s cynicism but the corrupt nature of the UK...

The Tories need to kick their blame habit; it’s making the rest of us sick.

Rishi Sunak is a very wealthy man. As a candidate for Prime Minister, this means he’s detached from the consequences...

Mike Stafford explores why Boris Johnson isn’t the bees knees as some people think he is, and how he messed...

Mike Stafford examines the Daily Mail’s claim that builders are now woke and what it means for the working class.

Mike Stafford dismisses Boris Johnson’s attempt to blur the lines between genuine patriotism and support for his failing administration.

Boris Johnson and his cabinet use lies to disguise their primary purpose. Which is not to govern but to maintain...

Boris Johnson is a man without shame, leading a party without scruples. He won’t remove himself and neither will his...

Mike Stafford looks at the conservative's plan to send Asylum seekers to Rwanda and finds it has some unsavoury supporters

Angela Rayner worked for everything she has whereas Boris Johnson had everything handed to him on a silver platter –...

Mike Stafford compares the Rwanda policy to one used by the Third Reich for deporting people to Madagascar.

Mike Stafford looks at the changing meaning of freedom for the conservative party.