James Ball
09 January 2024
Labour must keep it green
Watering down the flagship pledge to spend £28bn on net-zero jobs would be a humiliating disaster
Read the full article04 January 2024
Reform UK’s biggest danger is that it will make the Tories even worse
Richard Tice’s vow to stand in every seat could just be a negotiating tactic
Read the full article03 January 2024
A matter of dishonour: Liz Truss’s lettuce list
Truss being allowed an honours list was a joke. But handing peerages to Tory donors is no laughing matter
Read the full article01 January 2024
Can we trust Sunak’s promise to hold an election in 2024?
Sunak ‘guaranteed’ the next general election would take place next year but it would be a brave man who would bet the farm on a promise made by the PM
Read the full article28 December 2023
2023: The year inaction man Sunak did nothing good
A failed prime minister is blocking progress as the country crumbles around him
Read the full article21 December 2023
Donald Tusk is playing Poland’s populists at their own game
But is the new prime minister brave or foolish - or both?
Read the full article21 December 2023
A US-UK trade deal was always doomed from the off
Animal welfare, Ireland and the US car industry meant the Brexiteers' Stateside ambitions were destined to be thwarted
Read the full article20 December 2023
Now make things clear, Keir
A general election could be just weeks away. But Labour is yet to have crucial meetings about its agenda in power
Read the full article13 December 2023
Rishi Sunak’s viciously cruel Rwanda bill is still doomed
The prime minister’s “win” has set him up for weeks of losing
Read the full article13 December 2023
Boris Johnson, a sorry excuse for a man
Some Tory MPs still dream of Boris Johnson returning as PM. After his Covid inquiry appearance, are they mad?
Read the full article11 December 2023
How shifty Sunak was caught out over Eat Out To Help Out
The PM’s Covid inquiry testimony foundered on his basic inability to do politics well
Read the full article07 December 2023
Boris Johnson’s failure to grasp basic maths cost hundreds – maybe thousands – of lives
People paid a big price for the ex-PM’s perennial ignorance, while he gets off scot-free
Read the full article07 December 2023
The confident nonsense of Boris Johnson
The former PM produced nothing but blather at the Covid inquiry
Read the full article06 December 2023
Johnson at the Covid Inquiry – what happened this morning
It was a disaster for Johnson, and revealed the complete dysfunction at the heart of his government
Read the full article06 December 2023
The Covid inquiry is, finally, giving us the chance to be world-beating
Boris Johnson’s bluster and Partygate brought national shame. But the Covid inquiry is a source of national pride
Read the full article04 December 2023
No, Keir Starmer did not endorse Thatcher’s foul legacy
By appealing to Tory voters, Labour’s leader is merely showing how much he wants the Tories out of power
Read the full article03 December 2023
Elon Musk’s foul mouth
If he can’t make Twitter work his way, he’d rather break it than let anyone else take over
Read the full article29 November 2023
The F word: when does populism become fascism?
How close are populist leaders like Geert Wilders to fitting Umberto Eco’s definition of fascist traits?
Read the full article24 November 2023
I’m A Celebrity… is going badly for both Nigel Farage and ITV
Ratings are down and the Brexiteer is missing his chance to capitalise on new net migration numbers
Read the full article22 November 2023
The autumn statement points to a general election in May
A national insurance cut for January indicates we could only be six months from a poll
Read the full article21 November 2023
Rishi Sunak is no magician
David Cameron is Rishi Sunak’s latest trick to persuade voters that he is competent. Like his others, it is doomed to fail
Read the full article19 November 2023
The do-nothing left aren’t morally superior… they are irrelevant
In failing to realise the value of compromise, serial protestors guarantee they will change nothing
Read the full article15 November 2023
Rwanda was a colossal waste of time and money. Now Sunak should take the blame
The Supreme Court’s judgement makes clear that this was a plan that would never have worked
Read the full article15 November 2023
Nigel Farage, the biggest snake in the jungle
Does Nigel Farage’s I’m a Celebrity... appearance signal a return to the mainstream? Or just desperation?
Read the full article09 November 2023
Sunak and Braverman have pushed the Met into crisis
Their idiotic interventions about Saturday’s protest have made a delicate situation much worse
Read the full article08 November 2023
The deadly failings of a moral pygmy
Boris Johnson’s lack of focus and lack of humanity cost lives during Covid. Yet instead of facing charges, he is raking in the cash
Read the full article07 November 2023
Rishi Sunak only has a year left as PM. Is this really all he wants to try to do with it?
The King’s Speech shows a government out of ideas and running out of time
Read the full article03 November 2023
Sunak’s toadying interview with Elon Musk has damaged what remains of his reputation
The PM’s tone-deaf remarks in his weird AI chat again shows he is useless at politics
Read the full article31 October 2023
The Covid inquiry and Dominic Cummings’s potty mouth
The insulting terms he used for Johnson and others tell us much more about him than his intended targets
Read the full article28 October 2023
The prison walls are starting to close in on Donald Trump
Plea deals for his former allies are a disaster for the election-denying ex-president
Read the full article25 October 2023
No, these two stories about Rishi Sunak don’t prove he is a tech genius
There’s more to running a country than making your own spreadsheets and repeating an anecdote about AI
Read the full article23 October 2023
If Starmer wins, he should break up the Treasury and remake No 10
Two good ideas for an incoming Labour government come from a former Tory minister’s report
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