Who Is The Mayor Of London England? Still Sadiq Khan, Still On The Poster | Who is the Mayor of London England? It is Sadiq Khan, in office since 2016 – so long a whole generation has known no other. The deadpan dossier.
Thames Water Announces Customers May Soon Receive Moisture By Appointment Only LONDON — Thames Water, the utility company responsible for delivering water to approximately 15 million people across London and the Thames Valley while simultaneously applying to raise bills by 53% and discharging raw sewage into the River Thames with a frequency that has alarmed environmental scientists, local councils, and anyone who has ever swum near Putney, confirmed this week…
Keir Starmer Delivers Speech So Carefully Worded That Political Correspondents Briefly Lose Consciousness LONDON — Prime Minister Keir Starmer delivered a major address Monday that experts are calling “technically without fault, substantively without corners, and emotionally without a single sentence that could be quoted out of context, which is exactly the problem.” The 47-minute speech, delivered to what one aide described as a carefully selected audience of people whose reactions would be…
The Age of Political Populism: Farage, Reform UK, the New Right, and What Happens When Anti-Establishment Politics Runs Out of Establishment to Be Against | UKIP, Brexit Party, Reform UK, Populist Rhetoric, Anti-Elite Politics, and the Structural Conditions That Have Made British Populism a Permanent Feature Rather Than a Temporary Disruption
Democratic Socialism: Romance Without The Queues | Win North Islington, Don’t Frighten The Gilt Market
The British Lobbying Industry: Democracy’s Most Expensive Aftermarket Modification | The Revolving Door, Westminster Dinners, Influence Networks, Trade Associations, the Register That Registers Almost Nobody, and Who Really Decides Policy
Comparative Government: UK vs Australia, Canada, and New Zealand — The Westminster Family Reunion Nobody Organised and Everyone Attends Differently | How Britain’s Constitutional Exports Evolved Into Something Britain Itself Doesn’t Have: Written Constitutions, Elected Upper Houses, and Proportional Representation
Immigration, Identity, and British Politics: The Debate That Never Ends and Never Resolves | Empire Windrush, Points Systems, Small Boats, the Rwanda Policy, and the Persistent Gap Between What Politicians Promise and What Immigration Policy Delivers
NHS Announces Cuts to Balance Books, Books Immediately Need Balancing Again Britain’s health service discovers the philosophical paradox at the heart of perpetual austerity LONDON — The NHS, which has been in financial difficulty since approximately the invention of the NHS, has announced a new round of efficiency savings designed to balance its budget, resolve its deficit, and bring its finances to a sustainable footing — goals it has also…
The British Pub, High Street, and the Death of Third Places: How Austerity and Online Retail Hollowed Out Community Life | Pub Closures, Town Centre Decline, Business Rates, Permitted Development Rights, and the Social Consequences of Losing the Spaces Where Democracy Happens Informally
The English Question: The Part of Devolution Nobody Wanted to Think About and Everybody Now Has to | Metro Mayors, Combined Authorities, English Votes for English Laws, Regional Inequality, and the Governance of a Nation Within a Nation
Arguments for an Elected Second Chamber: The Democratic Case for Replacing the Lords With Something People Actually Vote For | Constitutional Legitimacy, Territorial Representation, Expertise Arguments Refuted, Democratic Mandate, and the Specific Models That Would Actually Work
Campaign Finance and Electoral Law: Who Funds British Democracy and Whether the Rules Are Adequate to Prevent Them Buying It | PPERA 2000, Donation Caps, The Electoral Commission, Permissible Donors, Russian Money in British Politics, the Dark Money Problem, and Systemic Weaknesses Multiple Reviews Have Identified
Sovereigntism: Treaties To Renegotiate, Alphabetically | The Small Print Tightens, ECHR Gets A Letter
Metropolitan Police Release Clues So Vague They Accidentally Implicate David Attenborough UK Solves BBC Mystery By Accusing Everyone On Television Simultaneously LONDON — A former BBC host is being investigated after an allegation of sexual assault dating back to 2005–06, but police have not publicly named the individual, creating what experts describe as “the largest national guessing competition since people tried to identify Banksy.” By Thursday, the British public had collectively accused…
Backbenchers and Parliamentary Rebellions: When MPs Vote Against Their Own Government and What Happens Next | The Anatomy of Parliamentary Rebellion, Famous Revolts, the Conditions That Produce Them, and Whether MPs Who Defy the Whip Are Heroes of Conscience or Threats to Democratic Government
Supreme Achievement Of Modern Politics: Convincing Citizens Simultaneously That Everything Is Fine And Everything Is An Emergency LONDON (PRAT.UK DATELINE) — Political scientists at the University of Edinburgh have confirmed what most citizens have suspected for several years: that the defining communicative achievement of contemporary governance is the successful maintenance of two entirely contradictory messages delivered simultaneously, at volume, to the same audience, without the audience being invited to notice the…
The British Constitution’s Most Awkward Relationships: Parliament vs. Courts, Lords vs. Commons, Devolution vs. Westminster | The Institutional Tensions That Drive British Constitutional Drama and the Conventions That Manage Them Until They Don’t
Heavy State Welfare Socialism: Every Need Is A Future Department | The DWP Should Be Replaced By Something Kinder And Bigger
Brexit and the Civil Service: How Whitehall Implemented the Biggest Administrative Task Since the Second World War | Article 50, DExEU, Trade Deal Negotiations, Operation Yellowhammer, Civil Service Strain, and the Permanent Secretaries Who Served the Government of the Day While the Government of the Day Changed Several Times
Big Government Liberalism: A Ministry For Tuesday | The State Is The Friend You Have Not Yet Emailed
Gender, Sex, and British Politics: From Suffrage to the Gender Recognition Act and the Culture War Nobody Wanted to Have but Everyone Is Having | Equal Pay, Women in Parliament, the Gender Recognition Act Reform, Trans Rights, Feminism, and the Debate That Has Replaced Actual Policy With Acute Discomfort
The British Constitution in 2025: Everything Is Fine. Please Stop Asking. | A Final Assessment of Where the UK’s Constitutional Arrangements Stand, What Has Changed, What Hasn’t, and Why Nobody Is Going to Fix the House of Lords This Parliamentary Session Either
Authoritarian Nationalism: A Louder Leader, A Bigger Lectern | Strong Hand, Strong Jaw, Strong Telegraph Series
The Glorious Revolution: Parliament Overthrows God’s Anointed and Blames the Dutch | 1688 — The Year Britain Decided Kings Were Great So Long As They Did What Parliament Said
Parliamentary Sovereignty: Parliament Can Do Anything Except Understand What It’s Doing | The Supreme Legal Principle That Allows Parliament to Pass Any Law, Including Laws About How Supreme It Is
Cultural Nationalism: Standing For Last Night Of The Proms | Hymns, Hedgerows, And A Quiet Word About The Strings
The Generational Wealth Transfer: How Britain Accidentally Created an Inheritance Economy and Nobody Wants to Talk About It | Baby Boomer Asset Accumulation, Inheritance Tax, the Bank of Mum and Dad, Property Wealth, Pension Differences, and the Quiet Revolution in Who Gets What in Britain
What Time Is In London England Now? BST, One Hour Ahead Of Everything | Wondering what time is in London England now? Right now London runs on British Summer Time, GMT plus one – the deadpan, accurate answer.
The British Media: Fourth Estate, Partisan Cheerleader, and Occasional Menace to Public Life | Fleet Street, the BBC, Murdoch, Phone Hacking, and the Question of Whether the Press Watchdog Has Any Teeth
