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by Chris Harris There is something slightly different about Nigel Farage at the moment. For years, whatever you thought of him, he possessed an extraordinary political instinct and ability to turn almost any controversy to his advantage. Scandal, outrage, resignation, comeback. It was all fuel. But the £5 million affair feels different. The questions surrounding … Continue reading Are The Vultures Beginning to Circle Farage?
by Chris Harris 19/8/26 Is Andy Burnham Serious – Or Is He Just Father Christmas? Remember Christmas Day when you were a kid? You wake up ridiculously early, run downstairs and there are presents everywhere. For a few glorious hours, life is absolutely brilliant. New toys, new clothes, chocolate for breakfast and nobody telling you … Continue reading Is Andy ‘Vibes’ Burnham Serious – Or Is He Just Father Christmas?
by Chris Harris 18/8/26 Would work better with the 'H' ! I should probably establish something from the start. I am not a Reform voter. Politically, I sit considerably further to the left, and there is plenty about Nigel Farage and Reform that I disagree with, but also some things that make common sense. I … Continue reading While Labour Takes August Off, Reform Is Setting the Agenda
by Chris Harris 16/8/26 There was something almost perfectly absurd about Sadiq Khan condemning the “public hounding”, abuse and public shaming surrounding the tragedy of Jason Arday — and then choosing X as the place to tell us about it. His sentiments may be entirely sincere. Indeed, the central point is difficult to argue with. … Continue reading This is Bullshit Khan. The Left’s X Twitter Problem: You Cannot Condemn the Cesspit While Swimming in It.
by Chris Harris 15/8/26 If you follow the British media, you could be forgiven for thinking Nigel Farage is already measuring the curtains at Downing Street. Reform dominates political coverage, every opinion poll is treated as another staging post towards government, and remarkably little attention is paid to what would actually happen in 650 individual … Continue reading The Useless British Media’s Bullshit and Reform’s Real Electoral Prospects
by Chris Harris The day after Nadhim Zahawi left the Conservative Party for Reform UK, I was sitting with my mother. Like me, she’s into her politics. I said to her, quite simply, that Robert Jenrick would not be far behind. I didn’t say it because I have some special instinct. I said it because … Continue reading Why Are So Many Political Journalists So Shit?
The Labour Vacuum and Burnham’s Timely Re-Emergence I was interested to read an article in The Guardian today 23/11/25 (link below) reporting the results of a poll of Labour members on who they would prefer to replace Keir Starmer, something that is beginning to look more like an inevitability than a mere possibility. Ever since … Continue reading Burnham Rising: Why Labour’s Real Leadership Contest Has Already Begun
Last year, a resident submitted a planning application to convert a very large garage with a pitched roof—which, in fairness, already looked like a small house—into an Airbnb. The local residents all opposed it, and it was quite rightly turned down. A quintessential English hamlet should not have its integrity spoiled by commercialism. However, without … Continue reading Why Reeves Has Adopted Trumpism to Take on the NIMBYs and Rebuild Britain