Author Archives for Rachel Cunliffe

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, [...]

The board is set, the pieces are moving, to quote Gandalf from The Lord Of The Rings. Next week, MPs [...]

Imagine you are a serious US politician. What do you do when the man your party put in the White [...]

Priti Patel, fresh from announcing that she wants criminals to feel “terror” at the thought of breaking the law and [...]

I’ll give fellow journalist John Rentoul the credit for coming up with the term “Meat Loaf Remainism”, although he is [...]

Labour has a problem – and for once it isn’t antisemitism. This time, it’s second-in-command John McDonnell, who this week [...]

Parliament is infested with vermin. According to an internal report seen by the MailOnline, the Westminster war on mice is [...]