Margaret Colley’s political diary: the education gap in the Labour party, the historical record, and the particular pleasure of being right in a footnote A Labour MP Said Something Historically Illiterate This Week; I Have Annotated It More at Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat. The Member of Parliament for…

Margaret Colley on bureaucracy, the political class, and a figure who delivers without a single committee Tuesday, Reading the Latest Review of a Review I have spent the morning reading the latest government review into the effectiveness of a previous review, which is the sort of thing that passes for…

Margaret Colley on the Week That Confirmed That Several Labour Politicians Did Not Pay Enough Attention in School Margaret’s Week: Mocking Labour, Paying Attention I want to be clear about what this column is and is not. It is not a column that opposes everything Labour does because Labour does…

Margaret Colley’s political diary: a close reading of the opposition economic policy document produces the specific mixture of bafflement and resigned exasperation that she has come to regard as her natural political state I Have Read the Shadow Chancellor’s Economic Plan and I Have Some Notes The document runs to…

Margaret Colley on Labour’s policy failures, socialist economics, and the week’s most instructive political errors Satire from Bohiney.com and prat.uk. By Margaret Colley | politican.uk It has been another week in which Labour has demonstrated, with characteristic thoroughness, that the ideological commitment to redistribution is not the same as the…

Margaret Colley on the PM’s departure, Andy Burnham’s imminent arrival, and a brief educational review of the Parliamentary Labour Party’s relationship with economic reality By Margaret Colley politican.uk Starmer’s Resignation: A Review of Which Policies Failed and Who Was In Economics Class When They Were Introduced Keir Starmer has resigned,…

Margaret on Starmer, the Democratic Socialist Economics Joke, and Why the Labour Party Is the Best Unwilling Comedy Act in British Politics June 2026 — Margaret Colley, politicanuk Another Labour prime minister has departed Downing Street with the specific expression of a person who has been through something difficult and…

Margaret Colley on the parliamentary discipline of a party that treats abstention as a position Wednesday. The Vote. The Aftermath. I have been covering Labour’s parliamentary behaviour long enough to have developed a taxonomy of the ways in which Labour MPs oppose their own government without formally opposing their own…

Margaret Colley on climate commitments, policy delivery, and the gap between target and trajectory Friday. Policy Documents. Coffee. The gap between a climate target and a delivery trajectory is the most important number in energy policy that almost nobody quotes when discussing energy policy, because the target is the number…

Margaret Colley on what the May results actually mean and why the media frame is always slightly wrong Post-Election. Results Digested. Local council elections are covered by national political journalism as national political barometers, which they are, imperfectly and with significant noise. The local results reflect local conditions — the…