Bell Hotel latest: 'two tier justice'?
Human rights barrister Dr Anna Loutfi and deputy political editor James Heale join Michael Simmons to unpack the latest court ruling over the migrants housed at the Bell Hotel. The government has won ...
29 Elo 202516min
Revenge of the left
James Heale writes in The Spectator this week that Keir Starmer is facing a three-pronged attack from the left: the Greens, the Gaza independents and this new – as yet untitled – Corbyn party. It was ...
28 Elo 202512min
Labour goes on the Farage offensive
As James Heale writes online for the Spectator today, 'two issues continue to plague the government': how best to attack Nigel Farage. and how to frame an incrementalist approach to policy 'when the n...
27 Elo 202511min
Farage finally unveils his deportation plan
Today James Heale has been on quite the magical mystery tour. Bundled into a bus at 7.45 a.m. along with a group of other hacks, he was sent off to an aircraft hangar in Oxfordshire where Nigel Farage...
26 Elo 202513min
Can the Lib Dems emulate Reform's Scottish surge?
Jamie Greene, an MSP for the West of Scotland region, defected earlier this year from the Conservatives to the Liberal Democrats. Most defections in Scotland – indeed across the UK – seem to be from t...
25 Elo 202517min
Is Britain becoming more sectarian?
Immigration returned to the headlines this week after the High Court granted an injunction forcing the removal of migrants from a hotel in Essex – a ruling that could have wider implications for simil...
23 Elo 202522min
Starmer’s authoritarian turn – with Ash Sarkar
Since the government’s decision to proscribe the group Palestine Action, arrests have mounted across the country, raising questions not only about the group’s tactics but also about the government’s h...
22 Elo 202515min
Is the Blair-Cameron consensus on education over?
GCSE results day has brought a mixed picture; the pass rate has fallen, yet the regional gap has reduced and the gender gap is the narrowest it has ever been. Isabel Hardman and Sir Nick Gibb, former ...
21 Elo 202518min
