British Politics

On Monday, The Stage announced that the government is to conduct a review of ‘arm’s-length bodies’, including Arts Council England, under culture-warrior-in-chief, Jacob Rees-Mogg. Despite Andrzej Łukowski’s caveat that the review’s remit includes some 295 organisations and may not, therefore, constitute a direct, legislative assault on arts funding, many took…

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. …

The UK is edging forward to energy efficiency and independence … but the end of the road is not in sight. — The UK Government’s British Energy Security Strategy highlighted that “energy is the lifeblood of the global economy”. If they are right, then the UK is on its deathbed. Successive governments have failed to take action on energy, and it is only now, when UK households are facing the lowest living…

Boris Johnson has spat in our faces. Again. The spirit of the British public has proven powerful over the course of the pandemic. Together, with relatively little power and in sometimes impossible situations, we protected each other. We stood up, sacrificed, helped one another. Suffered quietly. In some cases grieving…

So, what is really going on right now? What is the truth? Whilst BoJo and his team of co-conspirators look to dismantle the NHS and crash it during a plague. As he and his cronies have said “let the bodies pile high” and then gaslight us with repeating failed concepts…

As you will have seen, yesterday in parliament our embattled, bedraggled, morally bankrupt Prime Minister — reeling from Sue Gray’s report (which appears to have established 12 breaches of lockdown regulations) and mindful he was speaking under the ludicrous parliamentary privilege that protects MPs from libel law — repeated a…