Steve Richards
17 November 2024
The problem with ‘our viewers are saying’
The phrase has become a favourite of BBC interviewers - and it shows a wider lack of intelligent mission in the corporation’s news and current affairs
Read the full article20 October 2024
Why is Starmer so unconfident?
The PM has promised to put country before party. None of his Tory predecessors did, so why should he?
Read the full article04 September 2024
Framing Starmer
How a biographer’s aside, the Mail’s performative outrage and the BBC’s cowardice led to a media storm over a portrait of Mrs Thatcher
Read the full article01 July 2024
Starmer’s Brexit timidity must stop in No. 10
Labour’s leader has wasted one opportunity to reopen and win the debate. He can’t squander another
Read the full article05 June 2024
Why size matters for Starmer
A Tory defeat looks certain – but how big Labour’s majority is will shape their ambitions and define politics for the next five years
Read the full article01 May 2024
When things fall apart: The Tory endgame
How does this government’s collapse compare with the death throes of previous administrations?
Read the full article03 April 2024
One last gamble for the Tories?
Moving against Rishi Sunak now would almost certainly lead to further disaster. But disastrous polls mean that MPs still might do it
Read the full article13 March 2024
After the Tories: A turning point in British history
If the polls are right, several high-profile ministers are heading for catastrophic defeat in an election that will reshape Britain
Read the full article29 November 2023
We need a Brexit inquiry
The Covid inquiry has shone a light on the government’s pandemic response. Now it’s time for scrutiny of another national disaster
Read the full article26 October 2022
A Party driven mad by the Europe conundrum
Liz Truss has joined the ranks of Tory PMs who fell partly or wholly thanks to internal posturing over the continent. Will Sunak be next?
Read the full article03 October 2022
That u-turn and the shortest honeymoon in political history
Liz Truss has made the worst start of any prime minister, revealing herself as a tinpot, tin-eared Margaret Thatcher impersonator
Read the full article01 September 2022
Where does Boris Johnson rank in British politics?
May was inept, Chamberlain an appeaser. Callaghan was diverted and Cameron was frivolous. Yet none were as bad as Boris Johnson
Read the full article12 May 2022
The decline and fall of the Johnson empire
History is repeating itself as the government exhibits all the signs of a worn-out administration devoid of ideas and waiting for the end
Read the full article04 February 2022
The torn-apart Tory party
An exhausted, incoherent government is the by-product of a confused, chaotic Conservatism that no longer knows what it stands for.
Read the full article30 September 2021
The dangerously irresponsible silence of the Tory Remainers
The surviving Conservative Remainers have had little choice but to back some sort of Brexit, but their complete silence on the issue is shaming.
Read the full article09 September 2021
Is this the person who would have killed Brexit?
STEVE RICHARDS’ new book profiles 11 politicians who came close to getting into Number 10. But only one, he argues, would have truly changed British history...
Read the full article27 July 2021
Lord Frost: The courtier about to be caught out
Brexit minister Lord Frost has a reputation as Boris Johnson’s trusted, protected henchman. But his vulnerability, as well as his shortcomings, are increasingly being exposed.
Read the full article14 July 2021
How prime ministers have tried to tie their fortunes to the England team
One spectator sport this summer has been watching politicians try to tie their fortunes to the England team. Such efforts are as doomed to failure as, ultimately, Gareth Southgate’s team was.
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21 March 2021
Why is Boris Johnson more worried about Scotland than Northern Ireland?
08 February 2021
Brexit is no closer to being ‘done’ than it was four years ago
08 February 2021
Brexit is no closer to being ‘done’ than it was four years ago
20 June 2020
The countdown to the Brexit cliff edge starts again – and it’s riskier than ever
08 September 2019
Forget the distractions: We have no answers for Brexit – because they do not exist
27 May 2019
STEVE RICHARDS: Doomed from the start, why May never stood a chance
23 December 2018
STEVE RICHARDS: A year of wandering and we’re still in the darkness
