Tom FreemanLicence to fantasise about killingKeir Starmer made a grievous mistake last month after it emerged that Labour’s Rochdale candidate, Azhar Ali, had voiced a deranged and…7 min read·Mar 12, 2024----
Tom FreemanAccidentally answering the questionPoliticians are often asked questions that they’d prefer not to answer. One standard technique they use is to answer a different question.3 min read·Oct 26, 2023--1--1
Tom FreemanVoter ID: a cure far worse than the diseaseThe Electoral Commission has issued an interim report on the effects of voter ID on voting at May’s local elections.3 min read·Jun 23, 2023----
Tom FreemanInside the Boris bubbleOn Boris Johnson and the Downing Street parties, how his behaviour and his projected self-image interact, and whether he can still get away…3 min read·Apr 19, 2022----
Tom FreemanBelated lockdowns: the government chose to keep making the same mistakeIn a new report on England’s pandemic response, two committees of MPs are scathing about official thinking and decision-making in the slow…8 min read·Oct 14, 2021----
Tom FreemanJudging May’s Brexit deal by her own standardsYou remember Theresa May’s 12 principles, don’t you? These defined the kind of Brexit she and her government were going to deliver. She…9 min read·Dec 5, 2018----
Tom FreemanBrexit: thinking out loud about terrible ideasI think that leaving the EU is a terrible idea, so I empathise with the people calling for a new referendum — but I can’t say I’m…5 min read·Oct 22, 2018----
Tom FreemanA defining day for LabourToday has shown why Labour is having such trouble with anti-Semitism and why it has struggled so bitterly and fruitlessly over the IHRA…3 min read·Sep 4, 2018----
Tom FreemanTaking back control: the story so far…Public: We’re worried about the NHS, the economy, immigration and education.3 min read·Sep 23, 2017----
Tom FreemanTheresa May prepares to purge the systemBritish politics is malfunctioning, which is why we’re stumbling through an empty election that reeks of inevitability.3 min read·May 16, 2017--1--1