What strolling through historic Vienna can tell us about the power of remembering, and forgetting.

Ed Davey, Zack Polanski and Nigel Farage all face the same dilemma this party conference season.

Mark and Cory talk about a giant of American political drama for the first time this week, as they tackle The West Wing.

“I foresee lots of unforeseen problems”: Sir Humphrey Appleby

Labour’s vanishing membership and the surprising resilience of the party’s left

Perhaps people do, in fact, notice things in front of their nose

It’s down to geopolitics, social media and the new trend in espionage fiction

Which makes the objections to it on the Very Online Right even more mystifying.

A purge, or a lurch, or neither?

You're joking, aren't you?

To coincide with the men’s football World Cup, Mark and Cory talk about the 2006 Iranian film Offside

We should think about moral authority more when explaining how political parties rise and fall.

Starmer's resignation speech was like so much of his premiership: weirdly odd and incoherent, without a strong central message.

Starmer's resignation speech was like so much of his premiership: weirdly odd and incoherent, without a strong central message.

Andy Burnham isn't going to save the Labour Party. Perhaps nobody can.

Belatedly catching up with one of the best podcasts of 2025

A thought on AI and inevitability.

Thoughts you may have missed on Andy Burnham, chess, u-turns and spy novels

Our last few Prime Ministers have been unlucky to be in office at precisely the time when their flaws were most likely to be exposed.

The Pasokification of the Prime Minister's personal ratings tells us a lot about British Politics today.

Sharing my useless knowledge about the city's electoral geography while it's still relevant, so I can make space for new information in my brain.

Mark and Cory talk about Scandi Ballot Box dramas for the first time. They discuss the Borgen episode about Greenland.

Turns out governing is hard when you refuse to learn how to do it properly.

And other political lessons we can learn from the Candidates Tournament

So why is Labour talking like they are?

I write more words on the Liberal Democrat leader's chess playing than anyone else in the known universe.

What Denis Healey can teach us about political campaigning

Mark and Cory talk about James Graham's play This House. The hit play, available to stream from the National Theatre, is about party whips trying to prop up a government without a secure House of Comm...

How can you reconcile Trump's actions in Iran with his line that there would be no more "forever wars"?