Brexit doesn’t just raise issues for the UK’s trade policy. As Europe faces a security challenge some might think that the U.K. can play a leadership role. But successive U.K. PM’s failed to lead while the U.K. was an EU member. Can Starmer really lead from the outside?
01.03.2026 18:46 —
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Nigel Farage has a dilemma. He probably likes having someone like Matthew Goodwin saying the things he says that echo British National Party tropes. But his recruitment of failed Tories is also an attempts to make his party look safe and credible. I don’t think he can have it both ways.
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🎙️ Hot off the Press — Highlighting LGBT+ History
Host and Cambridge author Jen Manion talks to fellow authors Caroline Gonda and Simon Goldhill about queer history and the power of the archive.
🎧 Listen to the full episode 🔗 https://cup.org/4rt2yYd
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Taking Sarwar Seriously – Why Starmer’s Reset Must Confront Polycentric Politics
After days of political turmoil, Sir Keir Starmer left a meeting of his parliamentary Labour party secure in his job as UK Prime Minister, at least for the moment.
While there may multiple political stories about Monday’s drama over Starmer’s leadership that doesn’t take away from the central story that U.K. Labour has priced in Anas Sarwar’s defeat in May’s Scottish elections. And Sarwar is pissed off.
open.substack.com/pub/kaarmstr...
10.02.2026 19:32 —
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There may well be a Streeting story tied up with yesterday’s unheeded call by Anas Sarwar for a change in leadership but the main story is about devolution and Sarwar’s frustration that Scottish Labour will likely come 3rd in Mays elections. What the PLP at Westminster wants misses the point.
10.02.2026 19:19 —
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YouTube video by The News Agents
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Two governments took The News Agents to secret court for two years via a constitutionally unprecedented superinjunction to stop you from hearing this story.
The MoD is responsible for a data leak that put up to 100,000 Afghans at risk of death.
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Justice for Some by Kent Roach
A thoroughly comparative study on the history, law, politics, and latest knowledge about miscarriages of justice and wrongful convictions and the differences between them.
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#humanrights
10.02.2026 16:00 —
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Things may not have worked out as Sarwar may have wanted but the more that the parliamantary party closes its ears to the legitimate concerns of the Scottish Labour leader the more it is evident that the party is content to see electoral defeat for Scottish Labour as simply collateral damage.
09.02.2026 21:33 —
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Maybe Keir Starmer should watch the Take That documentary. Gary Barlow finally “joined” the band when he shared power with the rest of the band. Maybe it’s time Keir joined the Labour Party.
09.02.2026 18:46 —
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If the effect of Anas Sarwar’s call for a change of leadership is that the UK Cabinet closes ranks it sends a strong signal that Scotland isn’t relevant to the leadership. That’s a big problem for Sarwar as he tries to run an election campaign in Scotland. It plays into SNP hands.
09.02.2026 17:36 —
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Sarwar v Starmer
Why has Anas Sarwar called for leadership change?
The question people are asking is what the May elections mean for Starmer. But what does Starmer mean for the May elections?
In my new Substack post I explore why the Scottish Labour leader has turned on the PM.
open.substack.com/pub/kaarmstr...
09.02.2026 17:15 —
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Over the weekend I drafted and then deleted a post about whether this was a moment for Anas Sarwar to stick his neck out and make U.K. Labour come to terms with the real effects of Starmer’s leadership on Scottish politics. There are Holyrood elections in 3 months time.
09.02.2026 13:20 —
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Starmer now has the challenge of trying to recruit a chief of staff who doesn’t know whether their boss will still be in post in 3 or 4 months. It’s not necessarily an attractive option.
08.02.2026 22:11 —
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It is worth recalling that the position of U.K. Ambassador to the US was not vacant at the time the Prime Minister chose to appoint Peter Mandelson to the role. A highly competent and respected woman was replaced.
04.02.2026 13:05 —
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Doesn’t the same problem arise if you need primary legislation each and every time a peerage was removed?
02.02.2026 23:31 —
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And let’s recall that there is limited oversight of who is made a member of the Lords.
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The safeguard would be the need for affirmative resolutions of both Houses.
02.02.2026 22:15 —
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It would surely be possible to draft a framework statute to remove peerages from persons listed in a schedule and for that schedule to be capable of amendment by statutory instrument (subject to affirmative resolutions).
02.02.2026 19:37 —
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MELANIA - the days before inauguration
MANIA - the months after.
30.01.2026 08:33 —
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Interesting that Mark Carney and Ursula von der Leyen both describe changes in geopolitics as “permanent”.
21.01.2026 08:28 —
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Does the US Supreme Court’s delay in issuing its tariffs judgment signal it has found against the President but doesn’t want to weaken him at a time of intense diplomatic tensions around Greenland and the threat of new tariffs on allies?
20.01.2026 19:08 —
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Jenrick ending up in Reform is like a grubby mattress being dumped in a skip. It’s been a week of political fly tipping on the Right.
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