Author Archives for Rachel Cunliffe

With less than two weeks to go until the country heads to the polls, I have personally encountered precisely one [...]

Of all the Greek myths, the most famous is probably the story of Icarus, the boy who flew too close [...]

It is hard to think of a more unsexy name for a policy than the “skills wallet”. Juxtaposing two profoundly [...]

Why would anyone want to be an MP? If the number of prominent parliamentarians who have announced that they are [...]

 “Votes at 16!” opposition MPs demanded in the debate on whether Britain should have an election. They were denied the [...]

I was 14 when I voted in my first election. Not for real, of course, but in a school-wide mock [...]

Farewell to the porn laws, one of the worst thought-through pieces of legislation ever to have been at risk of [...]

Three months ago, EU leaders were adamant that, whatever the new Prime Minister claimed, the withdrawal agreement hashed out with [...]

Watch out London, your favourite selfie-taking, tie-rejecting, accidental-opium-smoking, politician/rambler is coming to a Tube station near you. Yes, it’s Rory [...]

“Unrealistic and damaging proposals”, or a “genuine attempt to bridge the chasm”? That was the debate raging in parliament yesterday, [...]

The BBC podcast series The Political Butterfly Effect explores the theory that even the tiniest of events can have vast [...]

The end of the school term goes hand-in-hand with discipline being somewhat relaxed. Lessons focus on pointless activities, farcical excuses for [...]

When a Prime Minister who has spent his career leaning heavily on his classical education – peppering speeches with references [...]

Countless criticisms were levelled at Theresa May during her final months in power. She was accused of being stubborn, blinkered, [...]