Like most of the political nerds I know, I spent yesterday flitting between refreshing Twitter and the Guardian Live news feed, patently not doing an ounce of my actual job and just shouting ‘oooooh there’s goes another one’ intermittently to the frustration of all my long-suffering colleagues. I was, I…

When I tell people my day job is in ‘public affairs’ I’m often met with confusion. How to explain? Lobbying sounds too evil, campaigning to lofty. But explaining what public affairs is is hardly the greatest challenge of the profession in 2022. …

Listening to Boris Johnson’s soundbites this week you could be forgiven for thinking he’d stolen Nick Clegg’s ‘this is what a feminist looks like’ t-shirt. In a pooled clip about trans conversion therapies he defended women’s rights to ‘spaces’ while squirming out of commenting on Rishi Sunak’s wife’s non-dom status…

There was partygate, what they used to describe the contempt their government held them in. There was rape in Ukraine, the threat of nuclear war. There was a cost of living crisis, what they called people dying of state-mandated poverty. There was the slap and racism and Britney’s pregnant and…

I suddenly feel prudish watching Euphoria, confused about the return of bootleg low rise jeans and baffled by NFTs. And just like that I had to ask myself, am I…old? The other day in the pub, I asked a friend “are you watching Euphoria?” “Yeah, it’s making me feel old…

If, like me, the pandemic has left you feeling like a jaded and frumpy millennial ageing out of the zeitgeist faster than you can say ‘vibe shift’, Saba Sams ‘Send Nudes’ will take you right back to the messy grips of girlhood. In all the very worst ways. In fact…

It’s time for the unsung villain of partygate, Cressida Dick, to take some responsibility and resign. In the latest shock development of ‘partygate’, the Metropolitan Police have decided to do their job. On Wednesday, after revelations about Boris Johnson’s 56th birthday party led the morning news, it was announced that…

Ultimately, it doesn’t matter who’s in charge of the Conservatives if Labour don’t have their own house in order, argues Jenna Norman. British politics right now is all getting a bit season finale of Succession isn’t it? There’s nothing political journalists like more than regicide and as the official investigation…

I wrote this on 23 June 2019. Nearly three years later it remains truer still. — So here we are. 3 years on. Parliament is paralysed and politics is toxic. The next Prime Minister’s partner has been recorded reacting to what sounds like abuse. The reality is that no one is surprised, and it won’t hamper his trajectory to Number 10. …