I suppose, in the end, people like me do have to make a choice, to take an actual position. Back in the easy calm of, say, 2019, a fairly normal...
We begin the column with an apology to a man called Tim Loughton, an obscure MP best known for leading 2016’s “Leadsom 4 Leader” march on parliament, which remains the...
It is unfortunate that the word “special”, like “bad”, and “wicked”, has in popular culture come to mean close to the opposite of its original meaning. But never has a...
In hindsight, it is clear to see that the age of liberal democracy, lasted between two historic lectures. The first was given by the French philosopher Benjamin Constant...
To the Liberal Democrat campaign launch, then, in a small room all of 50 yards away from the House of Commons. Britain’s third party has been through a radical...
According to ancient custom, newly elected speakers of the House of Commons are dragged from the backbenches up to the speaker’s chair. It is a tradition which is believed...
Whether the UK leaves the EU by Boris Johnson’s artificial deadline of 31 October only matters only if you are interested in the terrifying egos of Boris Johnson and Dominic...
There appears to be a slight sense of jubilation emerging, even among sensible people, that the very worst of Brexit might be avoided. Ireland and the EU, though not the...
It is almost to Boris Johnson’s credit that he couldn’t keep a straight face. He is to lying what Simone Biles is to the somersault, but this one came with...
Perhaps only to be contrarian, and perhaps entirely incorrectly, I have always taken a dim view of the achievements of Sir Ernest Shackleton. His great voyage across Antarctica set...
Peck is The Independent's Political Sketch Writer.
