This post was originally a guest column at The Practical Pinko. Panem et circenses. When Juvenal coined his scathing phrase about Roman politicians, he inspired two thousand years of cynicism, o...
https://politicalanimals.wordpress.com/2012/08/23/two-weeks-in-london/
Several people have asked me to try to explain what happened in Parliament today over reform of the House of Lords. It’s all a bit too complex for Twitter, so I thought I’d stick up a short p...
https://politicalanimals.wordpress.com/2012/07/10/lords-reform-went-the-day-well/
Am really excited to have started a weekly-ish column over at the excellent Practical Pinko blog. My first column, on why Labour needs to rip up the twenty-year old playbook on how to win electio...
https://politicalanimals.wordpress.com/2012/06/12/new-column/
Below is a series of tweets I posted on 1st May 2012 about the London mayoral election. A few people seemed to agree with them, so I’ve put them up here for posterity. Being tweets, they aren�...
https://politicalanimals.wordpress.com/2012/05/01/sackboris/
I want to talk about welfare reform. Liam Byrne won’t let me. Resheath your pens, denizens of the Fourth Estate. This isn’t a tale of shadow cabinet ministers cracking down on free expressi...
Over Easter I travelled by train, bus and ferry from St Pancras to the Red Sea, through Europe, Turkey and the Middle East. I’ve written up an account of my journey over at my travel blog – h...
https://politicalanimals.wordpress.com/2011/05/10/in-search-of-the-air-conditioned-desert/
Apologies that for various reasons this blog has been pretty quiet recently – I’ve yet to decide if, or when blogging will recommence here. I have, however, started a new site chronicling my ...
https://politicalanimals.wordpress.com/2011/02/14/new-travel-blog/
Back in July, Transport for London announced it was consulting on the removal of 145 sets of traffic lights across the capital, half of which included lights with pedestrian facilities. All part ...
https://politicalanimals.wordpress.com/2010/09/20/cross-with-care-evidence-less-policy-making/
On May 6th 2010, Labour won by a small landslide. Yes, you did read that correctly. Because as the party fell to defeat in parliamentary seats across the country, it swept to power in London boro...
https://politicalanimals.wordpress.com/2010/06/21/time-for-the-street-fighting-council/
Being young-ish and dull, I have a Salieri-like disposition to beat up on those who appear to be young and bright. This colours my view of the world in a rather unpleasant way, so what I’m abou...
https://politicalanimals.wordpress.com/2010/05/28/oona_king/