On returning from the hospital after receiving treatment for Covid-19 in early 2020, Boris Johnson cut a changed figure. Perhaps understandably, confronting his mortality appeared to have left a psychological mark on the Prime Minister. This mark took the form…

Chancellor Rishi Sunak released the fiscal budget for the next year last week, and whilst the funding is scarce for the country, the Tories still seem to be protecting their fellow members of the patriarchal elite. It almost seems predictable…

Today’s impending budget represents a litmus test for Keir Starmer. Decades of neoliberal orthodoxies have evaporated over a year, with a Conservative government using unprecedented powers of the state to safeguard health and economic well-being. The normal boundaries of political…