Class is not a protected characteristic| UnHerd
The Tory leader has fumbled yet another easy catch.| New Statesman
Oconee County is the largest apple producing region in South Carolina 🍎 The city of Westminster hosts the 64th Annual South Carolina Apple Festival September 5 - 6, 2025.| Visit Oconee South Carolina
Should Keir Starmer back these strikes, he risks splitting his entire political movement.| New Statesman
Sam Brown, founder of the American Pickleball Association, owns the Mission Commons Shopping Center where Pickleball Food Pub is located.| BusinessDen
Today, the Tory grandee was sworn into the House of Lords, entering the nobility at long last.| New Statesman
Connaissez-vous vraiment Westminster ? Avec un guide professionnel français, partez à la découverte des secrets de Westminster.| Bons Plans Londres
It seems to be the in thing to start producing information about events way before they are actually due, hence, for example, Christmas presents and decorations being advertised in September. So, i…| Angry Weegie
First, an apology. It’s been ages since my last blog posting, occasioned in part by an accident I had just before Christmas last year which left me struggling a bit with concentration for a f…| Angry Weegie
Were Labour's tax rises planned all along, or did the Tories force its hand?| New Statesman
I wear several hats that can largely be subsumed under two broad, but not mutually exclusive, headings of academic and parliamentary. At the end of last week, I was wearing my academic hat when I was in Brussels delivering a … Continue reading →| The Norton View
The comedian gives his take on life in the UK now the Conservatives have left the building.| TheJournal.ie
It is almost unnecessary to observe that the British Government had for more than a century been and could only be a Whig Government; and that the present administration is, as every administration…| The Common Green
A collected library of the party political manifestos ahead of the 2024 UK General Election| The Common Green
An introduction to what happened at a typical eighteenth-century English election [15-minute read] Elections were a key component of a continual cycle of renewing and maintaining relationships between politicians and their constituents in the eighteenth century. The years between elections provided opportunities for politicians and political families to generate goodwill with their local communities through [...]Read More... from Georgian Elections: the Basics| ECPPEC
Slavery and abolition could be contentious platform issues in 18th-century England [15-minute read] Understandings of Slavery In eighteenth-century political discourse, ‘slavery’ was a potent but often imprecise term, used across the century to describe many kinds of personal, political or religious oppression rather than specifically the ownership of people as property, as we now generally [...]Read More... from Slavery, Abolition & Black Voters| ECPPEC
The ‘electorate’ is the group of individuals who were entitled to vote in an election. This is different from the number of people who actually cast their votes at a poll, a group which we might call…| ECPPEC
Disputed results were common, often taking months of legal wrangling to resolve [10-minute read] The majority of eighteenth-century elections went uncontested, which is to say that an agreement had been reached in the constituency not to put up rival candidates, allowing the nominated candidates to be returned unopposed. However, when an opposition did materialise, and [...]Read More... from Controverted Elections| ECPPEC
This week brought the (excellent?) news that a second Scottish Labour MP (there are only two) had been promoted to Labour’s shadow front bench. This is the continued advancement of Michael Sh…| Angry Weegie
There was a time when it was said that SNP MPs were going to Westminster to find a way to lose their jobs. It was called settling up, not settling down, a phrase first coined in the early days of t…| Angry Weegie