Staying connected is the key to success for you, me, Donald Trump and Theresa May This week my email stopped working. Technically the term is “went down”, a term which gives a pleasing, if spurious, sense of a physical event having occurred. I gazed into the screen, everyth...
For a winner Trump seems gripped by a raging sense of insecurity. On the face of it Donald Trump’s pre-occupation with the size of the crowd at his Inauguration is perplexing. Who cares? Really it seems such a piffling point. There were many people there in Washington on th...
For the first time in a long time we have a Prime Minister with a clear sense of purpose. The Prime Minister has set out clearly her guiding principles and for Brexit. She told us much we already knew, and confirmed other things that had been reasonable assumptions if you h...
For those who think politics does not matter last year provided a rebuke. Politics matters. Politicians matter. How we chose them and who we chose to elect matters. The year ahead will be one of great year of change and the outcome will rest on political leadership. Do our l...
One hundred years ago Britain was preparing to celebrate the third Christmas of the First World War. 1916 had been a difficult year. The great battles of the Somme and Jutland had been fought. Neither had been lost, but neither quite won either. Overall victory was not yet in ...
Christmas is nearly here and everyone is tired and distracted. The last year and a half has been a tumultuous one for British and international politics, and in the UK MPs, Peers, Ministers and their officials are all looking forward to a break. Many are still trying to come t...
Over the festive period, Reaction authors are writing in with their favourite books from 2016 that they feel would make perfect gifts for Christmas or ideal New Year reading. Publisher Iain Dale has a keen eye for a good book. His current ‘day job’ as a presenter of LBC mig...
First Nick Timothy and now Fiona Hill are having their role as Theresa May’s Joint Chiefs of Staff examined. Not surprisingly there is intense media interest in the two people who are the Prime Minister’s closest assistants and advisors. Their every move and action is scrutini...
The UK will leave the EU. The UK’s membership of the European Union will stop. Article 50 will be invoked. The overwhelming vote of support for this to happen by MPs though not legally binding gave further very fair political wind to its invocation. Both of these things ...
The House of Lords voted unanimously this week to reduce the number of members of the House Lords. This was victory for the still relatively new Lord Speaker – the former Cabinet Minister and MP Norman Fowler. From the start of his time on the Woolsack he has understood very c...