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‘The language is different. The policy, though?’ - Labour’s approach to welfare leaves a lot to be desired, while the effects and consequences are still uncertain

‘Farmergeddon’ - Another week when another story that affected some of the wealthiest in society commanded the news agenda

‘Not using pigeons this time’ - How the UK is preparing to negotiate the Trump presidency

‘When America sneezes…’ - What Trump’s victory could mean for the UK and how UK's Labour government can learn much from it

‘Benefit of the doubt… for now’ - Labour's first budget in 14 years left much to be desired, but was not enough to be dismissed entirely

'NHS or Bust!' - The government appears to be using public health as a smokescreen to hide bigger concerns ahead of the budget

“Cue derailment” - How Labour's reset strategy and attempts to 'crack on' got off to a fairly bad start

‘100 Days Later...’ - The question is whether a reset will be enough or just more noise to add to the mix

'Hitting rock bottom' - How Labour's belief that things can only get better from here misses the idea that they could actually stay the same

‘The weather is sh*t’ - How Labour’s victory lap left many with dampened spirits

“Something very familiar about all this” - Labour is learning that the problem lies not in the story itself, but in how distracted you become by it.

'Won't get fuelled again' - Making sense of Labour's 'Winter Fuel' policy as it prepares to be unpopular

‘A bit of a pickle’ - How Labour’s first week back saw the first warning signs of fissures, division and conflict over policy

'But I have to be honest with you...' - Something needs to be done about Labour's messaging before it risks alienating everybody

‘Swamped’ - The warning signs that the public may be growing weary of Labour's 'inheritance' narrative

'It's oh so quiet... or is it?' - How some of the most intriguing political developments were revealed this past week and why so few were interested

‘Some good can come out of this’: How Britain, for the most part, rejected the far right

‘They made me do it’ - How the frosty Chancellor set Labour’s narrative on the economy for the foreseeable future

'Broken' - The Home Office and the problems contained within are Labour's most toxic inheritance

‘Like wearing a helmet on an exercise bike’ - erring on the side of extreme caution, Labour's blame game begins

'Ok, now what?' - New beginnings, and how time and patience will be required from a nation that feels like it's running out of both

'Enjoy the tap water, Bramley!' Week #6 Part Two, the General Election post-mortem and how the Conservatives were lucky it wasn’t worse

'This doesn’t feel like a seat with a 23,000 majority' - Week #6 Part One, and how Sunak’s last ditch effort to scare voters went horribly awry

‘It’s like Rorke’s Drift out there!’ - Week #5 of the Conservative Party general election campaign was probably the messiest yet - but at least they were honest about not caring any more

‘By the end he was just left shouting at the members of the audience’ - Week #4 of the general election campaign and the point where Sunak had clearly had enough of you lot

‘The most expensive panic attack in history’ - How the reset strategy failed and the wheels came off altogether in week three

‘A rattled clown sending the party into oblivion’: Week #2 of the general election campaign and things are still going about as well as many were expecting

‘It was shite… and if I get sacked for saying so, it’ll be worth it’ - Week #1 of the general election campaign and it went about as well for the Conservatives as everybody expected

‘Things can only get wetter’ - Why ‘Soggy Sunak’ launched the election now, and how we got to this sorry, sodden point.

‘It didn’t go very well.’ - Sunak’s latest attempts to connect with voters have once again fallen on deaf ears

‘What could possibly go wrong?' - An insecure Prime Minister discussing security to an insecure nation was never likely to be a recipe for success

‘The misery is priced-in’ - the noise is as distracting as ever, but the real problems remain for Sunak as they do for the rest of the country

'The plan is... working?' - with equal parts desperation, delusion and denial, the Conservative Party shuffles on

‘Oblivion.’ - It’s simple: nothing has changed and the Conservatives are still on course for a major defeat at the next election

'Like a flesh-eating virus': Next week's results are expected to be grim for obvious reasons. If only they thought to consider what those reasons were.

'The Sick Party' - How scandals and allegations of moral corruption are just the tip of the iceberg for a party that has no solutions for the nation's most important questions

‘Less a political party as it is a rabble’ - How hopes for Tory Party unity went up in smoke this week

‘They should have all been sacked’ - It’s almost normal and perhaps even accepted that the government will experience a breakdown at least three times a week at this point

‘Electoral oblivion’: The national feeling has been consistent for a while now, and the reasons are obvious to everybody - except Rishi Sunak

‘Disheartened, deflated, and dejected’: The death spiral continues and the Conservatives are on a distinct losing streak that’s too difficult to ignore

‘Let's go and smash it!’ - Sunak's core message to voters has already started to unravel

‘Sticking with the plan… that nobody wants’: How Sunak failed to bounce back this week when it should have ended at least several months ago

‘It should have ended last week’ - By ending speculation over a date for the next general election, Sunak sealed his fate

‘If it feels like it’s fraying around the edges, that’s because it is’ - Sunak on notice, a government rapidly falling apart, and how everything went wrong... again.

‘Turning the corner… into oncoming traffic’: As a feeble attempt to narrow the polls, Hunt’s budget will make no difference

‘A very good week to bury very, very bad news’: What else was missed last week as the Tories descended into another self-indulgent internal crisis? Quite a lot, actually.

‘He's lost control… again’ Part 2: How the Conservatives’ Islamophobia crisis has exposed a much darker side to the party’s fight for ideological purity

‘He's lost control… again’ Part 1: Rishi Sunak’s Badenoch conundrum

'Delivering!': The continuing ‘Comms Problem’ for the Conservatives or repeated examples of something far, far worse

‘Very much priced in to the death spiral’ - How the Conservatives went on a dummy run towards losing a national election

'Ten years to save the... what?' - If this is the future of Conservatism then the future looks bleak

The joke nobody wanted, least of all as told by you, Prime Minister

'But, but... I did a thing. Didn't they notice? Did they even see?' - the Conservatives are still failing to reset the agenda

'Still missing the point': Losing the plot while the country goes to pot. So far, so Tory...

‘I mean, it's not as though there's a country to run or anything’ - How the performative psychodrama of Tory Party infighting 'got silly'

To say that Downing St. has 'a major comms problem' is an understatement

‘Isaac, this election victory. Is it in the room with you now?’ - Rwanda Week, the worst rebellion ever, and how Sunak still managed to lose... even though he won

'Wellingborough, Wets and W*nkers': Many suspect it will all completely fall apart for Sunak this week. Again.

Another PM Disconnect - How Sunak’s second reset of 2024 just made things markedly worse (Part . II)

‘If last week was a dummy run, what’s the excuse now?’ - How Sunak’s second reset of 2024 just made things markedly worse (Part . I)

‘Stop the Boasts! I''ve got lots to get on with!’ - Sunak’s bottled it with an eye-wateringly, grimace-inducing start to the New Year

‘So, what next? Anybody? Any ideas?’ - Sunak trudges on into 2024 with more of the same expecting different results