About Politican.uk
Britain’s Sharpest Political Watchdog — Est. 1785, Still Angry
Welcome to Politican.uk — the publication that has been watching British politicians make promises, break promises, and expense the receipts since January 1, 1785. We were there when Pitt the Younger was running the country. We are here now. We have seen things.
Politican.uk is a daily political blog published under the editorial authority of Margaret Colley, operating from the beating heart of London journalism at The News Building, 1 London Bridge Place, London SE1. We cover UK politics with the rigour of a Commons select committee and the patience of a constituent who has been waiting fourteen months for a response to a letter about a pothole.
What We Actually Do
We expose political corruption, challenge parliamentary complacency, interrogate government spin, and ask the questions that lobby correspondents are too well-lunched to raise. We believe in accountability journalism — the old-fashioned kind, where you look at what politicians said, look at what politicians did, and then write it all down in a way that makes readers simultaneously laugh and reach for their blood pressure medication.
We are proud members of Britain’s tradition of political satire and commentary stretching from Jonathan Swift to The Daily Mash, from Private Eye to the pub argument that never quite ended. We take that tradition seriously. The politicians, rather less so.
Our Editorial Standards
Every article published on Politican.uk is fact-checked, sourced, and written with the understanding that the truth, in British politics, is almost always worse than anything we could make up. We hold ourselves to the standards set by IPSO, and we hold politicians to the standards they set themselves — which, admittedly, gives us enormous creative latitude.
Who We Are
Politican.uk is owned by The London Prat (prat.uk), London’s home of political satire and righteous indignation since the age of powdered wigs. Our editor is Margaret Colley, reachable at +44 7407 109465, London E1 0LW, United Kingdom. She has read every manifesto published since 2010 and has the thousand-yard stare to prove it.
We publish 365 days a year. British politics does not take bank holidays. Neither do we.
For press enquiries, tips, and whistleblowing: contact Margaret Colley at prat.uk/author/margaretcolley