What will it mean to vote Conservative this December?

One surprisingly interesting question to come out of the last two years - particularly with the December election now approaching - is what the Conservative and Unionist Party now represents for voters. By this point in 2019, do its core values remain the same? Can those voting for it still trust its MPs to be …

Liberal-Conservative Déjà Vu

There's a dark sense of déjà vu about this turn of events, as Boris Johnson joins Jo Swinson as a new party leader in the Commons. Some may remember one sunny day, in a certain rose garden nine years ago, when two fresh-faced political leaders, one Liberal and one Conservative, smiled and laughed and pledged …

Understanding the Local Election Results

It's only 4:30pm and only 202 of 259 councils have declared results, but patterns are already becoming apparent in these elections. It's impossible to ignore the giant blue bar descending on the left of that results graph: the Conservatives are losing, and losing hard. Theresa May, of course, still sees these results as a mandate …

Bridging the communication gap: applying business skills to creative fields

I've been thinking a lot recently about bridging the communication gap between social groups, whether they be industries, political parties or social classes. Though in earlier incarnations the internet allowed unprecedented freedom of communication, as tracking software, tech giants, legislation and big business increasingly find ways to get a handle on the web, we're starting …

Extra notes on the Independent Group

Spare thoughts which wouldn't fit into the previous post, in no particular order: Differences between Tariff Reform and the Independent Group 1. Difference #1 That in many ways the 1906 election has already happened. The 2017 General Election was the one in which the Conservatives lost their significant majority. The difference may be explained by …

Breaking the spell: the Independent Group

So it's finally happened. We have a splinter group, and it's growing. British politics has entered a whirlwind of panicked opinion. Sure, we've had hard-left Labour factions, antisemitism and the ERG has acquired an apparently iron grip on the Conservative tiller, but this is the first time any MPs have actually left a party as …