Cut Through The Consensus
Take a look through our refocussed lens on UK politics.
The immigration debate exposes what is wrong with British politics.
When welfare becomes a subsidy for the people replacing us.
Why Britain's ultimate outsider looks increasingly like an insider.
On the 15th of July, several 'Cutting Takes' writers met to discuss and debate our thoughts on the rise of the newly crowned...
Britain doesn't hate Starmer because he's radical. It hates him because he won't do anything.
Reform UK pledges to both ‘reform’ a ‘broken Britain’ and to bring us back to the ‘good days’ of yesteryear. This is the...
The day before the 2024 General Election, the Liberal Democrats were polling at 11% and later secured 72 seats, a gain of 61....
With Peter Mandelson resigning in disgrace, what does the future for the Labour party look like?
A visitor to my small southern village, taking the footpath under the A3 through woods and fields to the neighbouring parish church, would...
An apparently counterintuitive move from the Labour government reveals a deeper lack of initiative to protect migrants’ employment rights.
Borrowed battles, slogans, and enemies: Britain’s new politics is 'Made in the USA'.
The final by-election in the Welsh Senedd may just be the final nail in the coffin for Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer. The...
On the 19th October, the Green Party of England and Wales became Britain’s third-largest political party in terms of membership after leapfrogging the...
There is a great temptation, particularly in the wake of such atrocities, to reach for a conclusion. Names, faces, clear motives – someone...
Patriotism has long been a stick to beat the Left with. Whereas three centuries ago liberals and progressives were the ones clamouring for...
Labour's primary electoral opponents, Reform UK, have been on a professionalization mission. They are leading in the polls but there remains a sense...
In the midst of the partygate scandal, Angela Rayner used the highly effective phrase “one rule for them and another for everybody else”....
Barely a year has passed since Labour’s 411-seat electoral landslide, and yet – without a severe constitutional, economic, or military crisis – the...
What do Gary Stevenson, Lord Kinnock, Anneliese Dodds, groups of backbenchers, Tax Justice UK, and Rachel Reeves have in common? Answer: They have...
