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Articles by Alex Wickham
Ed Miliband believes in banning everything that he sees as a problem. This is not the way to govern a free country.
Ed Miliband’s office went back to the seventies this Easter. Bank Holiday Monday meant the Labour leader’s team worked just four days that week, then power cuts plunged the building they work in into darkness. A four day week with
The REAL Racists: UKIP is the Only Party That Doesn't Discriminate Against Non-Whites
UKIP had a bit of a shocker with some of its more extreme members last week. First the star of the party’s TV broadcast for the upcoming European elections, Andre Lampitt, was revealed to have made a series of racist
'Other MPs Worse Than Evans' Say Parliament Staffers, One MP asked Graduate Worker to See Her 'Fantastic Breasts'
Within minutes of Nigel Evans being found not guilty I was bombarded with messages from bag-carriers, researchers and activists who work in Westminster. A young parliamentary aide predicts that “there is still a huge scandal to come”, naming a Tory
Parliament Cannot Rule Fairly on MP's Wrongdoings - We Need Reform
Forty years ago, if someone died in police custody under mysterious circumstances, or felt they had been the victim of police brutality, or felt they had been wrongly arrested, complaints were handled by the police force concerned themselves. Following a
Open Season on Westminster Sex Scandals
Conservative Member of Parliament Mark Menzies has resigned his position as a ministerial aide after two Sunday newspapers revealed that he had employed the services of a £250-a-night rent-boy. Menzies is also alleged to have asked Brazilian male prostitute Rogerio
BBC Appoint Labour Candidate as Economics Editor of Flagship Politics Show
The BBC’s appointment of a Labour candidate as the new economics editor of its flagship politics show has provoked genuine anger in the Conservative Party. Sources at Tory HQ reacted not with faux outrage but actual bewilderment at how a
UKIP's Contempt For Our Free Press
I tend to disagree with most of the reasons people put forward for why they don’t like UKIP. The party is racist, they say. Yes of course it has far too many members with horrible views, but I do think
Labour Is Still Under the Control of Trade Unions
This weekend the Labour Party held its so-called ‘special conference’, organised to give delegates a vote on a series of reforms concerning the party’s relationship with trade unions. Members travelled from across the country to the conference hall in East
The Facts Show The Labour Party Has a Bigger Problem With Women Than The Tories
The UK Labour Party’s favourite attack line against the Conservatives at the moment is not dissimilar to the Democrats’ usual anti-Republican line: the suggestion that the Tories have a “problem” with women. At Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs) earlier this month,
Evidence Mounts Against Piers Morgan in Phone Hacking Investigation
On Friday it was revealed that the CNN host and former editor of the Daily Mirror newspaper, Piers Morgan, had been interviewed under caution by police investigating phone hacking. Officers from Operation Golding will have wanted to talk to Morgan
Evidence Mounts Against Piers Morgan in Phone Hacking Investigation
On Friday it was revealed that the CNN host and former editor of the Daily Mirror newspaper, Piers Morgan, had been interviewed under caution by police investigating phone hacking. Officers from Operation Golding will have wanted to talk to Morgan