Sunak

Defence: an invisible plan

May 14, 2024 3:07 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

By a substantial margin, Sunak seems to have got more publicity for his speech prior to its delivery than he... View Article

Politics: activating the switch

March 14, 2024 2:19 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

Following on from the announcements on Tuesday about energy, and the move to incentivise the building of more gas-powered electricity... View Article

Politics: democracy under threat

March 2, 2024 3:09 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

According to the man who calls himself prime minister, in recent weeks and months, we have seen a shocking increase... View Article

Immigration: taking us for fools

December 17, 2023 3:14 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

If there can be said to be a single hot button item on the political agenda at the moment, it... View Article

Politics: Braverman bites back

November 15, 2023 2:09 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

Prime minsters are perfectly entitled to dismiss their ministers but once freed from the constraints and responsibilities of office, recently... View Article

Politics: a monument to irrelevance

November 14, 2023 2:28 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

I don’t suppose it matters a damn what I think of Sunak’s resurrection of David Cameron to British politics. Nor... View Article

Politics: an inevitable disappointment

November 8, 2023 2:02 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

In the normal course of events, yesterday was the day the nation turned to the Monarch’s speech in the House... View Article

Israel: reading the small print

October 24, 2023 2:36 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

Prime minister Sunak seems to have learnt some lessons from the recent past. After he and some his ministers have... View Article

Politics: the penny drops

October 21, 2023 1:20 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

Despite awaking to yet another power cut – the second in as many months – I was not deprived for... View Article

Politics: just a dress rehearsal?

October 5, 2023 2:00 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

There is a distinct possibility that this was the last Conservative Party conference before the general election. If that is... View Article

Net-zero: less than it seems

September 22, 2023 12:15 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

Despite other issues building up, we need to have another look at Sunak’s magical mystery tour of net-zero to see... View Article

Net-zero: opening the gates to hell

September 21, 2023 12:39 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

So, prime minister Sunak says he wants “a politics that is transparent, and the space for a better, more honest... View Article

Politics: not talking the talk

September 3, 2023 1:46 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

David Smith, the economics editor for The Times, has an article in Saturday’s online edition, listing what he calls: “The... View Article

Politics: small differences

July 15, 2023 3:59 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

A tedious piece of “colour writing” in The Times about “Rishi Sunak’s barbecue for 150 Tory MPs in the Downing... View Article