Category: Politics

  • Rudderless and rightwards: why the Labour Party is being blown off course

    Rudderless and rightwards: why the Labour Party is being blown off course

    Do Not Pass Go, 17 March 2025, © 2025 Bobby Crosby Repeated government briefings last week about considerable cuts to disability benefits, with the lion’s share of savings coming from slashing Personal Independence Payments (PIP), have rightly sparked a wave of discontent within the Labour Party. With a prime minister praising Thatcherite deregulation, reducing the…

  • Welsh Labour’s clear red water is getting murkier

    Welsh Labour’s clear red water is getting murkier

    View from Cregennen Lakes, 28 April 2024 © 2024 Bobby Crosby Welsh politics has been getting more media attention than usual recently. Upcoming Senedd elections are shaping up to be the canary in the coal mine for the future of British politics, and so commentariat eyes are turning west. At the end of last year,…