WESTMINSTER MPs lucky enough to have their name picked in the draw are granted what is known as a Private Member’s Bill (PMB), offering a few of them a chance to draft a law to come before Parliament ...
WATCHING the Chancellor deliver her first Budget from the comfort of my own couch was definitely better for my blood pressure than doing so while sitting on the green benches of the House of Commons ...
WHERE America leads, the UK has a habit of following. Not only evidenced by our entry into wars in the Middle East, but also by our attempts to imitate US politics ...
THIS week marked a year since 1200 people were killed by Hamas, and 251 taken hostage in the attacks against Israel. Since the October 7, 2023 attack, the state of Israel has responded by killing an estimated 42,000 people in retaliation.
THE SNP, and subsequently the Scottish Government, have garnered much criticism this week due to a meeting between Cabinet secretary Angus Robertson and Israeli diplomat Daniela Grudsky ...
TWO years ago, I made a speech in the House of Commons warning of the rise of fascism in the UK ...
AS David Bowie famously sang: ch… ch… ch… ch… child poverty – oh wait. For all the talk of change this week, Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour Party showed us that party politics is more important to them than reducing child poverty.
THE election of just over a week ago should have been something to celebrate given we finally got rid of that horrendous Tory government. For the SNP, it was a night of chickens coming home to roost.
REFLECTING on this General Election campaign period brings into sharp focus the embarrassing and despondent state of UK politics.
EVERY generation grows up looking at the past with a degree of horror and disbelief. We are appalled that women didn’t have the vote, that minorities have been legally treated as lesser people for generations, or even that those who came before us predominantly lived in abject poverty.
