The UK is an angry place in 2021. It seems that those tweets, posts and stories in December that wanted to ‘forget about 2020’ and to simply start again in the new year were doomed. …

In a previous article, I wrote that the “bold vision” Keir Starmer was setting out for the Labour Party over the next decade was far more pedestrian than he was claiming it to be. …

“Fears he may be stalling made this intervention all the more important” wrote Sienna Rodgers in The Guardian, but this speech was planned long ago, she insists, and not a response to “the commentariat” and its criticisms. …

Following the UK’s formal departure from the European Union on the 31st December, the agreement of a last-minute deal has proved insufficient at preventing a number of issues from arising in the first weeks of 2021. Trade between Britain and Europe has been frustrated by red tape, leading to localised…

Amid a second wave of the virus which has, by all useful metrics, dwarfed the original outbreak in its severity, hope has been pinned by politicians and the public alike on the possibility that a vaccine rollout is the golden ticket out of the crisis. As we trudge towards the…

It’s rare in the world of financial markets that there’s a decisive moment of change which isn’t simultaneously also a moment of destruction and systemic collapse, and frankly the idea they are moments of change has to be taken with a pinch of salt given the track record of financial…

2016 and 2020 bookend one of the more extraordinary periods of political upheaval and systemic disruption since arguably 1945, and not just because of Trump or Brexit, although both, along with the fresh-faced addition of COVID-19 will no doubt dominate discourse now for some time, and equally the history books…

Liberty. It’s a word we hear a lot in politics, usually in the context of it being defended from some perceived threat, and rarely with regards to a situation where it really is under attack. It’s beyond ironic that in the week that saw the House of Commons vote against…

COVID-19 has — unless you’re in the 1% of course — been, to varying degrees damaging to all our lives whether directly through sharply rising unemployment or indirectly through the mental impact of our previous day-to-day existence becoming something dangerous and unpalatable. Millions have suffered, and based on the government’s…