William Atkinson

There are a few iron laws in British politics, long ago carved into stone tablets by Professors Vernon Bogdanor and John Curtice.

For a country of ten million people that spent most of the 20th century occupied and impoverished, Hungary today is thriving.

To prove there is nothing this abysmal government considers sacred, we learned yesterday that Labour is launching a war on the school dinner.

In three and a half years or so, the electorate that stuck Starmer in Downing Street will have the opportunity to turf him out of it. Until then, they should put up with a Prime Minister they loathe.

‘It won't last,' my schoolfriend Albert told me, as we staggered down Embankment one summer evening in 2018, a few pints into his birthday pub crawl.

Trying to turn these results into a victory only leaves Badenoch looking like Comical Kemi.

Ireturned from a recent holiday to Morocco with three mementos: a bright red pair of swimming trunks (teenager-sized; the largest…

The Shetland Islands The SNP have had better weeks. It’s strange to think that it was only this month that…

The SNP have had better weeks. It’s strange to think that it was only this month that the party won a staggering fifth term in office, despite independence being no closer, and a record of failure on everything from education to drug deaths. Perhaps...

For all of the squabbling between Reform and Restore, the Right’s best chance at a by-election win on 18 June may not be in Makerfield, but 300-odd miles further north – in Aberdeen. The beneficiary wouldn’t be Nigel Farage or Rupert Lowe, but Kemi...