Read More News & Politics > Opinion Jess Phillips: woman of the people, or just out for herself? A quest for truth The Labour leadership candidate markets herself as a bold and refreshing outsider, when in fact she embodies the status quo.
Read More News & Politics > Opinion The Independent Group is a self-serving vanity project Why it’s doomed to fail Chuka Umunna, Angela Smith and co want to fix Britain’s ‘broken politics’. But their ‘new way’ looks very much like the old one.
Read More News & Politics > Opinion Even £50 million won’t make a new centrist party relevant From Where I Stand Simon Franks' new political party is destined to fail, writes Matt Zarb-Cousin. It's a vanity project of the super rich with no policy or movement.
Read More News & Politics > Opinion The curious case of the centrist and the train Destination: Tedium Town The left and right are borderline obsessed, but no corner of British politics has a more warped view of the humble train than the centrist, argues Tom Whyman.
