Category: Politics
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Labour’s European reset will gather pace
Elizabeth Tower Crowned, 28 January 2026 © 2026 Bobby Crosby Open a world map and glance upon Britain’s place in the world. Assuming yours is a standard Mercator projection, we sit quite comfortably near the top of the middle. A fitting metaphor for our foreign policy ten years ago. The UK enjoyed an enviable position:…
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Social media companies trade child wellbeing for profit
On reading a letter published in the Powys County Times (the local paper for the county I grew up in) I was so incensed by a fellow reader’s attack on attempts to regulate social media in the UK that I wrote a riposte, which was published a few weeks later. The website headline chosen by…
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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…
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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,…
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