Read on, or view here: https://youtu.be/n8lCmjz2_6g Wherever you look, the wheels are coming off. Across The Pond, the orange-tinted wrecking ball seems unable to distinguish between fact and fiction, or between between friend and foe. A problem for nations across the globe, though a little local difficulty’s also cropped up here, in the shape of Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham. Meaning Keir Starmer’s hold on power is looking ever more tenuous. To deal with the tottering world

Clock ticking down on Tories? Read on, or view here: https://youtu.be/56z-m_ezuVU It’s not every day that everyone getting shouty at Westminster really adds up to all that much. But what’s just happened is an exception. And it’s not just because Farage’s gang’s scooped up another Tory big hitter. The backdrop to Robert Jenrick’s defection to Reform tells you all you need to know about how the whole system’s falling to bits. Like so many claims made in and about parliament

(Read on, or view here: https://youtu.be/x5aykMcAzBY ) Sir Keir Starmer had a great idea this week. To spend, in his own words, ‘every minute’ discussing the cost of living here in Britain. But across The Pond, Donald Trump had another idea. To shatter everyone’s illusions about about what the world order’s supposed to look like. No prizes for guessing what happened to our Prime Minister’s plan. All very well taunting him with the term Never Here Keir, which bits was he sup

(Read on, or view here: https://youtu.be/bcIB-Tt5DIE ) Of all the Christmas presents anyone’s given anyone this year, the standout has to be the great dollop of dosh the European Union’s just lobbed Ukraine’s way. And what’s unusual about it is that it’s a gift that repays itself pretty much straight away. Because if it hadn’t been forthcoming every one of us would have been exposed to Russian barbarism. Consider the alternative. Within weeks, months at the outside, the Kie

(Read on, or view here: https://youtu.be/8RNRnjrVKcg ) As the post budget rumpus finally runs out of steam two closely related questions linger. What about the pound in our pockets? Where exactly is the growth coming from? While answers remain patchy and unconvincing one intriguing possibility keeps peeping from the sidelines. Maybe, just maybe, a seriously moneymaking reset of relations with the European Union. After all, it’s the Prime Minister himself who’s set the ball

(Read on, or view here: https://youtu.be/mtTRxtcA6eA ) In one sense, budgets are all the same. A wheezing, limping race to the finishing bottom line. Exhausting but essential. Because behind the impenetrable mass of facts, figures and fulmination they are a defining pointer to what any government is doing. Or at least trying to. This latest foray can be chalked up as a victory – but only on one front. No question, Wednesday’s statement was decisive. By lifting tax levels t

(Read on, or view here: https://youtu.be/RURWz05W3kM ) After what’s felt like the longest orgy in history of will-she won’t-she speculation about the 2025 budget, we’re finally going to know for ourselves this week. But it’ll take a bit longer than that to find out which bits will actually stick, and which will fall by the wayside. As our Political Correspondent Peter Spencer reports, Downing Street’s grip on events is looking increasingly fragile. Goes without saying tha