Who would want to be an MP?
01/02/2024
As another MP announces that he is quitting parliament – this time due to death threats – Frank Mckenna says we need to start to value our parliamentarians once again.
A week in America | 2 February 2024
01/02/2024
This week Martin looks at the raft of economic data being shared about the US economy and wonders what it all means…
Downtown take on councils’ crisis
01/02/2024
MPs say the Town Hall financial crisis is out of control. Jim reports on that, and a Downtown event which shows that councils and business increasingly want to work together for regeneration.
A week in America | 26 January 2024
25/01/2024
This week Martin and millions of other Americans prepare to pay their taxes… some will be in for a nasty surprise…
Will Sunak survive until the General Election?
25/01/2024
How much trouble is Rishi Sunak in? Could the Tories really give us our fourth prime minister in two years?
Tax cuts or better services?
25/01/2024
Do people want tax cuts or better public services? That may be a big issue at the election, but perhaps not, as Jim explains in his blog. He also pays tribute to Tony Lloyd and reports on the choice of his successor in Rochdale.
A week in America | 19 January 2024
18/01/2024
As politics takes centre stage in America, Martin takes a sideways glance at the characters and storylines shaping the US Presidential Election…
History not on Labour’s side
18/01/2024
Is Sir Keir Starmer heading for a landslide or will the General Election be a close run thing? Jim reports on two major surveys this week that reached very different conclusions.
Post haste
11/01/2024
Jim is unimpressed with the sudden urgency ministers are applying to decades of post office injustice. He also looks ahead to a year of elections.
A week in America | 11 January 2024
11/01/2024
This week Martin casts an eye over the 2024 Presidential Election and looks at the unique way America picks its candidates…
A week in America | 4 January 2024
04/01/2024
In the first blog of 2024, Martin Liptrot looks at the year ahead in the US.
Winners & Losers in 2023
14/12/2023
Jim gives us his winners and losers from a year which, he thinks, leaves
us with little to be optimistic about.