**BREAKING** Former Labour leader Neil Kinnock advocates new ways of levying National Insurance on higher earners and wealthier people in Rachel Reeves’s upcoming Budget, makes the case for a form of PR and has words of encouragement for Keir Starmer. open.spotify.com/episode/2siU...

**BREAKING** Former Labour leader Neil Kinnock advocates new ways of levying National Insurance on higher earners and wealthier people in Rachel Reeves’s upcoming Budget, makes the case for a form of PR and has words of encouragement for Keir Starmer. open.spotify.com/episode/2siU...

The cancellation of Jimmy Kimmel seems like a worrying development for free speech in America.

Donald Trump celebrating the cancellation of Jimmy Kimmel is chilling.

Everyone on the right, left and centre of British politics should utterly condemn these dangerous words from Elon Musk

**NEW** Wow. This was some interview to do. Former Fun Lovin’ Criminal, Huey Morgan, lifts the lid on his extraordinary journey from crime to stardom. open.spotify.com/episode/2oAn...

Hugely enjoyed this with @ottoenglish.bsky.social Worth a listen. Entertaining! open.spotify.com/episode/5kql...

Reform UK showing themselves to be utterly unfit for government.

In the reality of a General Election (rather than the polls), there will likely be strong voter mobilisation to keep out Farage (and Tice, Anderson and Yusuf to the extent anyone has heard of them). In the meantime Starmer and Labour need to get on and deliver.

Steve Richards - @steverichards.bsky.social - has been a political journalist for decades. Here he brilliantly assesses the state of British politics, the challenges facing Starmer, and the rise of Farage’s Reform. Has being Prime Minister become impossible? open.spotify.com/episode/025W...

If Nigel Farage is correct that Britain has “become North Korea”, how come he has his own national TV show when he’s leader of an opposition party?

Steve Richards - @steverichards.bsky.social - has been a political journalist for decades. Here he brilliantly assesses the state of British politics, the challenges facing Starmer, and the rise of Farage’s Reform. Has being Prime Minister become impossible? open.spotify.com/episode/025W...

"I would say that it is a position of independence to point out, for example, that the fiscal policies of the Green Party, and of Reform, are - and I'll use this word particularly now that I'm not actually Director of the IFS - completely insane". open.spotify.com/episode/5tiV...

Reform is an illusion and Farage is a mirage.

"I would say that it is a position of independence to point out, for example, that the fiscal policies of the Green Party, and of Reform, are - and I'll use this word particularly now that I'm not actually Director of the IFS - completely insane". open.spotify.com/episode/5tiV...

If Nigel Farage is in tune with “the British people”, how come an overwhelming majority of the British people don’t want him to become Prime Minister?

Today I interviewed Paul Johnson (until recently Director of the IFS) and Huey Morgan (once a Fun Lovin’ Criminal) for the 20 Questions With podcast. Separately, of course, not together. Both fascinating. Looking forward to sharing with you. open.spotify.com/show/77uOvlZ...

Just to be clear. Nigel Farage’s plan for the boats includes signing a deal with the Taliban. Difficult to think of a policy less in line with British values.

**NEW** Take a break from politics and listen to this! Great fun interviewing Freddie de Tommaso, who is about to star in Tosca at the Royal Opera House. Singing, rugby, body-building, Italian restaurants and stardom. Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/6jhQ...

Challenging to think of anything much more tragic than people so insecure about their Englishness that they’re sticking flags on lampposts.

Grilled by @matthewstadlen.bsky.social in the most delightful manner possible for 20 Questions. We talked twitter-hate, pseudonyms, history repeating itself and of course about my latest book. open.spotify.com/episode/5kql...

Robert Jenrick, the Tory Shadow Justice Secretary and former Home Office Minister, joining protesters outside an asylum hotel is one of the most disgusting acts by a frontline British politician in living memory.

Robert Jenrick, the Tory Shadow Justice Secretary and former Home Office Minister, joining protesters outside an asylum hotel is one of the most disgusting acts by a frontline British politician in living memory.

X has almost become a campaigning website for the populist right. They reinforce themselves with likes and reposts and seem to think they speak for Britain. They don’t.

Disgraceful comments by Trump about Sadiq Khan. Starmer right to stand up for the Mayor of London.

It’s completely extraordinary that after the riots of last year, the populist right are trying to whip up hatred of asylum seekers again. Utterly shameful.

The overwhelming majority of Brits don’t want a Reform government.

Imagine Nigel Farage without the small boats.

If Reform can only hang on to three of the five MPs they started with, what does that say about their readiness for running the actual country?

It’s difficult to imagine a much more useless political outfit than Reform. It’s whinge, whinge, whinge.

This is well worth a listen. Otto English is hugely entertaining. And an important voice. open.spotify.com/episode/5kql...

Disgraceful comment from Nigel Farage in his speech that while Lucy Connelly should not have said what she said, “there were millions of mothers at that moment in time feeling exactly the same”. Millions of mothers indifferent as to whether hotels with human beings in them burned down? Shameful.

Yesterday was an embarassing day for right wing media in Britain. A very embarrassing day.

Starmer’s deal with the EU is designed to make our lives better. The EU obviously wanted something in return for a deal. Anything they wanted was always going to annoy someone in the UK. The alternative is to make no deals with foreign countries and watch the UK decline further.

0.7% growth. Stronger than expected. Must be very, very painful for all those unpatriotic commentators hoping for Starmer and Labour to fail.

Boris Johnson 2019: police funding is being "spaffed up the wall" investigating historic child abuse. Boris Johnson 2025: “I don't know why we don't have a national inquiry [into the grooming gangs]…”

First India. Now the United States. Starmer, to the fury of his detractors, is showing himself to be a winner.

Who has ever become better off as a consequence of Nigel Farage’s politics?

Climate change is a very, very big problem.

Easter Saturday sunset over the Sussex coast

Good Friday tulips in a service station

If Trump cares so much about the ordinary American voter, why does he spend so much time playing golf and attending banquets?

Americans are learning that if you vote in a moron, you get a moron.

Is Donald Trump the worst President of the last 100 years?

A very special conversation with Prue Leith, who reveals her kitchen secrets, the time she met Winston Churchill, what happened when the Beatles ate at her restaurant, how she won her Michelin star, and what went wrong when she poured tea for the Queen. open.spotify.com/episode/524y...

Has Elon Musk fired Pete Hegseth yet?

If racists hate living in Britain so much, why don’t they go and live somewhere else?

Maybe Rupert Lowe will set up a new party and call it The Highs and Lowes of Politics. He could be the leader, chairman and chief whip, with Elon Musk as his director of social media.

Rupert Lowe is concerned about integration in Britain, but he seems to be struggling to integrate within a party of five MPs.

Reform have only got five MPs and there’s already talk of a rebellion. Extraordinary and embarrassing.