Matt Withers
08 November 2025
An Iranian exile’s rebellion in sound
Nava Golchini dreams of the day she can go home and perform. Gabbeh, her debut album as NAVA, turns hyperpop into protest
Read the full article06 November 2025
Shanker Singham, the Daily Express’s dubious ‘Brexit guru’
Who is the 'guru' telling Express readers how getting closer to the EU will kill growth in the face of overwhelming evidence?
Read the full article24 October 2025
The Caerphilly vote shows Farage won’t be the next prime minister
Reform’s lack of a ground game and vulnerability to tactical voting were exposed on what was also a disastrous night for Labour
Read the full article17 October 2025
Malaya, Kenya and Cyprus are Britain’s history, too
A new exhibition at IWM London is a stark reminder of how Britain's post-colonial conflicts shaped the modern world
Read the full article02 October 2025
Finally, Starmer pins the Brexit blame on Farage
By labelling the small boats heading to Britain's coast with the Reform leader's name, Labour are finally calling out the man responsible for Brexit
Read the full article11 September 2025
Brexit is silencing British musicians
The bureaucratic demands put on artists touring the continent are so great that many acts are simply giving up. And the government is doing nothing about it
Read the full article04 September 2025
Sarah Vine’s Windsor knot
The Daily Mail commentator thinks bringing the late Queen into politics is distasteful. It’s hard to imagine a more hypocritical view
Read the full article25 July 2025
GB News, Brexit and two obscure think tanks
The hard right channel and the ecosystem which feeds it are behaving like the Japanese soldier who held out for nearly 29 years after the war ended
Read the full article17 July 2025
Does the Museum of Brexit actually exist?
A recent spurt of posts by the long-dormant project doesn’t mask the fact that little progress has been made in eight years
Read the full article10 July 2025
Starmer makes progress – and the europhobes can’t stand it
The PM’s meeting with Emmanuel Macron has brought the Brexit ghouls out in a chorus of whingeing. It seems they prefer Britain to be isolated
Read the full article09 July 2025
All hail the world king of football
Gianni Infantino, the boss of FIFA, spends his time with influencers, Gulf royalty and Donald Trump. He says it’s all about the football – but really it’s all about him
Read the full article03 July 2025
Is Switzerland the future of Britain?
The nation has just negotiated a new settlement with the EU, and British officials have been playing close attention to the terms of the deal
Read the full article23 May 2025
The hidden war crime
The Imperial War Museum London’s vital, deeply uncomfortable exhibition about sexual violence in conflict
Read the full article21 May 2025
PMQs Review: U-turn if you want, the lady’s not listening
Keir Starmer today performed the first screeching u-turn of his premiership. Fortunately, the leader of the opposition wasn't paying attention
Read the full article07 May 2025
PMQs review: Is Kemi Badenoch getting her strategy from the Two Ronnies?
The Conservative leader quizzed the PM on Tony Blair's net zero comments, just a week too late. Meanwhile, Ed Davey went all Pastor Niemöller
Read the full article30 April 2025
PMQs review: Keir Starmer actually makes a good joke shock
It has taken 3,646 days since he became an MP, but Keir Starmer today made an actual funny joke at Prime Minister’s Questions
Read the full article23 April 2025
PMQs: Shock as Badenoch achieves the unthinkable
The leader of the Conservative Party today managed a score draw against the prime minister at their weekly confrontation. Did Parliament swoon in admiration? Not quite
Read the full article02 April 2025
PMQs, haunted by the political ghost of David Cameron
The former PM is apparently training Kemi Badenoch for her weekly clash with Keir Starmer. As with everything Cameron has attempted in life, it’s not turning out very well
Read the full article12 March 2025
PMQs Review: A dangerous question for Keir Starmer
The leader of the opposition was almost invisible in the Commons today – but the real threat to Starmer comes not from the Tories, but from the benches behind him
Read the full article05 March 2025
PMQs Review: It was all going so well for Kemi Badenoch
It was an understandably subdued prime minister’s questions until the Conservative leader reverted to type
Read the full article26 February 2025
Neil Kinnock: ‘Trump is like all bullies… he needs a bump on the nose’
In a time of crisis, the former Labour leader says he’d rejoin the EU tomorrow – and wants the Brexit reset to be speeded up
Read the full article12 February 2025
This car crash was Kemi Badenoch’s worst PMQs yet
A diet of topics plucked from the pages of the Daily Mail and Telegraph is leading the Conservative leader down a dead end
Read the full article05 February 2025
PMQs Review: Whatever happened to the Conservative Party?
The natural party of government is fast becoming an irrelevance at prime minister's questions
Read the full article31 January 2025
The 50 most batsh*t quotes of Brexit
Five years on, the story of a national disaster in the words of those responsible (and Mr Blobby)
Read the full article29 January 2025
Kemi Badenoch is bad at PMQs. Again
While her choice of topics has narrowed, her inability to land blows on a PM with a current approval rating of -42 is mindblowing
Read the full article15 January 2025
Badenoch asks about Everything Everywhere All at Once
The Conservative leader's great gift to the prime minister is the inability to choose a topic and focus on it
Read the full article08 January 2025
PMQs Review: Kemi Badenoch’s opportunism is shameless
The child grooming scandal, said the Tory leader, was one of the worst in British history. So why had she never mentioned it before?
Read the full article29 December 2024
On the hunt for Tony Blair in Kosovo
In Kosovo, there’s a statue to a former British PM, where he’s regarded as a hero. But if you want to see it, you need to take the bus
Read the full article20 December 2024
Interview: Stella Creasy – ‘Brexit is a bad dream… but there’s no Bobby Ewing moment’
The chair of the Labour Movement for Europe explains why the group is not campaigning to rejoin the EU – but trying to salvage relations instead
Read the full article18 December 2024
The Commons laughs at Badenoch and Brexit
The Tories’ struggling leader fluffs her lines at prime minister’s questions once again
Read the full article11 December 2024
Kemi Badenoch is outstandingly bad at her job
With the prime minister pursuing a string of unpopular policies, the Tory leader used PMQs to focus on things Keir Starmer said years ago
Read the full article04 December 2024
Badenoch’s hypocrisy is exposed at PMQs
Keir Starmer parries attacks over Louise Haigh by reminding the Tory leader of her party’s reign of shame
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