The Rant Mistress

At the time of writing, the dreadful but effective Brexit Party was polling at  around 31%, incoherent Labour at 23%, resurgent Lib Dems...

Hopes were high for post-local election gloating for both major parties, particularly in London. Here, Labour hubristically thought...

"Optics" is becoming the new "I misspoke". The new bullshit excuse. The new cliche when something isn't a good l...

My husband worked for many years on regional newspapers in Britain and he said that whenever he had to cover a council meeting, the de...

Way to kill the long weekend buzz, Theresa! There we all were, eating chocolate and hot cross buns, getting drunk, and generally enjoyi...

In my last blog post, I recklessly made some predictions that expired like a pint of milk in the sun. In some cases, these predictions...

"It's the economy, stupid!" is a frequent, if cliched, explanation for why elections are won. It's so obvious. The win...

The polls predicted a close election. Britain was braced for a hung parliament and the possibility of voting again to break the deadlock...

We didn’t want to be right but we knew we were. While people from the major parties were telling the public that St Helier Hospital was...

I had an interesting Twitter conversation last night. It all started when I retweeted the fabulous Freya, who tweets as @FuzzCookies. Ref...

Nadine Dorries is whining again today. She says she was given permission to take four weeks off while Parliament was sitting, but admits ...