Privacy Policy

What We Know About You, Why We Have It, and Why It’s Less Than What GCHQ Has

This Privacy Policy applies to Politican.uk, owned and operated by The London Prat (prat.uk), The News Building, 1 London Bridge Place, London SE1. Editor: Margaret Colley. Contact: +44 7407 109465.

We take your privacy seriously. Unlike certain members of the UK Parliament who took your data, your taxes, and your goodwill and invested all three in a second home, we are transparent about what we collect and why.

What Information We Collect

When you visit Politican.uk, we may collect standard technical data including your IP address, browser type, pages visited, and time spent on site. This information is collected automatically and is used solely to understand how our readers engage with content — not to build a dossier, not to sell to third parties, and not to use as leverage in a future reshuffle.

If you contact us directly — via email, our contact form, or by telephoning Margaret at an unreasonable hour — we will collect your name, email address, and the contents of your message. We store this securely and use it only to respond to you.

Cookies

Yes, we use cookies. Not the subsidised House of Commons dining room variety — the digital kind. These small files help our website remember your preferences and analyse traffic patterns. You may disable cookies in your browser settings at any time, though the website will look at you with quiet disappointment.

We comply fully with the UK Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR) and the UK GDPR as retained following the withdrawal from the European Union, which was itself a privacy violation of extraordinary scale.

Third-Party Services

Politican.uk uses standard third-party tools including Google Analytics for traffic measurement and WordPress for content management. These services have their own privacy policies, which we encourage you to read, ideally with a strong cup of tea and low expectations.

Your Rights

Under UK data protection law, you have the right to access the personal data we hold about you, request its correction or deletion, and object to its processing. To exercise these rights, contact us at the address above. We will respond within the statutory 30 days — considerably faster than the average MP responds to a constituent letter about literally anything.

Changes to This Policy

We reserve the right to update this Privacy Policy at any time. Changes will be posted on this page with a revised date. Unlike government policy changes, we will not announce them via a leaked briefing to a journalist at 11pm on a Friday.

Last updated: June 2026. Politican.uk is owned by The London Prat. Editor: Margaret Colley, London E1 0LW.