Stephen Pollard

If you want to understand why the traditional mainstream parties struggle to gain support, and why Reform is leading the polls, one name will suffice: Shabir Ahmed.

Twitter – formally known as X, since owner Elon Musk changed its name in 2023 – is a cesspit of hate, intolerance and bigotry. Which is one key reason why I am now in my 18th year on the site and cannot imagine leaving.

As a good Labour man, I’m sure Andy Burnham will have read his Marx (even if he is by no stretch a Marxist). And he’ll likely be aware of Marx’s maxim, “History repeats itself, first as a tragedy, second as a farce”. It’s far from always true, of...

As a good Labour man, I'm sure Andy Burnham will have read his Marx (even if he is by no stretch a Marxist). And he'll likely be aware of Marx's

There’s been much comment on the appointment of James Purnell as Andy Burnham’s chief of staff. Along with the widely touted return of David Miliband, it’s a sign of how the near-certain next Prime Minister is going back to the future, recruiting...

There's been much comment on the appointment of James Purnell as Andy Burnham's chief of staff.

It looks like it’s going to be a straight fight between Nigel Farage and Count Binface to be the next MP for Clacton. That may be the most bizarre sentence I have ever written. Although this one may be even more so: it’s possible that some fringe...

It looks like it's going to be a straight fight between Nigel Farage and Count Binface to be the next MP for Clacton.

The most disturbing thing about the so-called progressive platform is its dangerous herd mentality

“This is the end of my political journey,” Sir Keir Starmer told MPs on Wednesday when he faced his final PMQs. It’s an interesting choice of words, especially when you remember that Sir Keir came late to politics after a career at the bar and then as director of public prosecutions. He’s only been an MP since 2015, so that political journey of his has certainly been a fast one.