Tom Freeman·Apr 1, 2025Against the lawMarine Le Pen has been convicted of stealing millions of euros of taxpayers’ money. As well as receiving a fine and a part-tagged…A response icon1A response icon1
Tom Freeman·Nov 28, 2024Thoughts on assisted dying and the Leadbeater billLike a lot of people, I’ve long been vaguely sympathetic to the principle of assisted dying but have never thought very much about the…
Tom Freeman·Jun 6, 2024What if they’re right?I struggle to believe the polls. Partly this is the scarring from having been a 15-year-old Labour activist in 1992, but partly it is — I…A response icon1A response icon1
Tom Freeman·May 13, 2024How general elections affect local electionsJohn Rentoul and Mark Pack have disagreed about the recent local elections and what they may or may not tell us about the upcoming general…
Tom Freeman·Mar 12, 2024Licence to fantasise about killingKeir Starmer made a grievous mistake last month after it emerged that Labour’s Rochdale candidate, Azhar Ali, had voiced a deranged and…
Tom Freeman·Oct 26, 2023Accidentally answering the questionPoliticians are often asked questions that they’d prefer not to answer. One standard technique they use is to answer a different question.A response icon1A response icon1
Tom Freeman·Jun 23, 2023Voter ID: a cure far worse than the diseaseThe Electoral Commission has issued an interim report on the effects of voter ID on voting at May’s local elections.
Tom Freeman·Apr 19, 2022Inside the Boris bubbleOn Boris Johnson and the Downing Street parties, how his behaviour and his projected self-image interact, and whether he can still get away…
Tom Freeman·Oct 14, 2021Belated lockdowns: the government chose to keep making the same mistakeIn a new report on England’s pandemic response, two committees of MPs are scathing about official thinking and decision-making in the slow…
Tom Freeman·Dec 5, 2018Judging May’s Brexit deal by her own standardsYou remember Theresa May’s 12 principles, don’t you? These defined the kind of Brexit she and her government were going to deliver. She…
