Pre-election budgets are normally quite exciting both in their content and in their delivery. But to be exciting a budget needs a few surprises and at least one rabbit. It needs a bit of theatric...
https://www.iaindale.com/articles/a-few-thoughts-on-the-political-consequences-of-the-budget
Dear all On a personal level I’ve always found George Galloway to be engaging company. We’ve had our run ins, but always parted as, well, maybe not friends, but… I remember one parti...
https://www.iaindale.com/articles/the-consequences-of-george-galloway
Within the next 24 hours it is entirely possible that the House of Commons could be without a Speaker. I’m not predicting it will happen, but it’s not impossible to imagine Sir Lindsay Hoyle ...
This article first appeared on Telegraph Online . Government loses two by-elections. Ordinarily that barely rates a headline. These, however, are not ordinary times. Poll after poll shows Labou...
https://www.iaindale.com/articles/the-end-of-tory-days-my-analysis-of-the-by-election-results
It was just before 5pm. I was interviewing Lord Bilimoria for my ALL TALK podcast when I caught sight of a news alert on my phone. I couldn't believe what I was reading. Steve Wright had died. My...
I’m sitting here on my sitting room sofa, a dog either side of me, watching West Ham take an absolute tonking at home to Arsenal. As I write the score is 0-6. What an utter embarrassment. Sunak...
https://www.iaindale.com/articles/moyes-sunak-brothers-from-a-different-mother
Political parties are like tribes. They defend their own. And in times of stress they circle the wagons and whatever the facts are, whatever the pressures, whatever someone has done wrong, they f...
https://www.iaindale.com/articles/derek-drapers-funeral-the-gathering-of-the-new-labour-clans
My generation has been lucky. We’ve never had to fight a war, unlike those of my father’s and grandfather’s generation. Indeed, my Great Uncle, Clifford Norden, was killed only ten days bef...
https://www.iaindale.com/articles/would-you-fight-for-your-country
Some of you may have heard of the Loan Charge. Most of you probably haven’t. Mark my words, it is a scandal which eclipses the Post Office scandal, of which it is very redolent. It has, however...
https://www.iaindale.com/articles/the-loan-charge-scandal-could-be-bigger-than-the-post-office
I first went to Dublin in the mid 1990s when I had the pleasure of being one of the first people to see Riverdance performed live, at the Eurovision Song Contest. I’ve been back several ti...
https://www.iaindale.com/articles/for-the-many-live-comes-to-dublin-on-24-march