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.
A week in America | 8 December 2023
08/12/2023
College football in the US has just had its biggest scandal since the last one. Martin looks at what is going on off the pitch in the billion dollar business in America’s Universities.
Obsessed Prime Ministers
07/12/2023
The Prime Minister has created a first class political crisis by staking the whole government’s credibility on the narrow issue of Stop the Boats according to Jim in his latest blog.
A week in America | 01 December 2023
01/12/2023
This week, stuffed with turkey and all the trimmings, Martin ponders the origins of Thanksgiving – a most American of holidays.
Bankruptcy and vision, hand in hand
30/11/2023
Despite a crisis looming over Town Hall finances, Jim reports on major plans for the future launched this week by local authorities across the North West.