For better or worse, Keir Starmer wants to take Labour forward by rekindling the politics of the party’s not so distant past. The opposition leader has been the first of Tony Blair's predecessors to talk openly about his admiration for the achi...

Dubious representations of the working class, incomprehensible foreign policy, freedom of movement in pre-Brexit Britain; Love Actually is not only the finest Christmas-themed rom-com ever made, it is also a time capsule preserving Britain’s bi...

In the months of September and October, the UK was gripped by headlines about British prisons being on the brink of total collapse. It was widely reported that there were only 557 places left for newly sentenced prisoners, amidst other reports ...

On the 17th August 2023, the Office for National Statistics published a report which showed that the number of babies born in England and Wales in 2022 was the lowest since 2002.Why is no-one having babies any more? What does t...

Conspiracy theorist, meteorologist, activist, and brother of the former leader of the Labour party: Piers Corbyn is many things, but he isn’t a talented politician. Unfortunately, that doesn’t stop him from trying.Episode 13 of Jumping O...

Formerly an actor and a musician, now a Twitter-obsessed campaigner for conservative social values, Laurence Fox rarely misses an opportunity to position himself in the spotlight. Most recently, he announced that he is running to be an MP and t...

On Friday 28 April, the Chairman of the BBC announced that he was resigning from the role after it was revealed that he had failed to declare his involvement in securing a loan of £800,000 for the prime minister at the time of his appointment, ...

On Wednesday 15 March, Jeremy Hunt announced the Government’s Spring Budget. One of his spending commitments is encouraging the development of new technologies to tackle climate change. In light of this, the tenth episode of Jumping...

At the beginning of February, US intelligence services identified a Chinese surveillance balloon, followed by a series of unidentified flying objects, which were all subsequently shot down in the airspace over North America. When a...

Across the UK, union members from a broad cross-section of sectors including Healthcare, Education, Rail and the Postal Service have been striking for fairer pay and better working conditions. The wave of industrial action began in 2022 and ...

On 5th December 2022, Leader of the Opposition Keir Starmer announced a plan to abolish the House of Lords as part of a series of sweeping reforms aimed to decentralize Westminster power and lay the foundations of the Labour party’s platform fo...

On the 6th of September, Liz Truss became the prime minister of Great Britain. By the 25th of October, she had crashed the British economy, invoked the wrath of fellow MPs in Westminster, resigned and been replaced by Rishi Sunak. E...

On 7 July, prime minister Boris Johnson announced his plan to resign from the job in early September. Since then the Tories have been in a race to the bottom to pick their new leader.The fifth episode of Jumping Off Points sees...

On 14th June, a Boeing 767, chartered at an estimated cost of £500,000, was scheduled to deport dozens of asylum seekers from the UK to Rwanda. It never left the runway, and was ultimately sent back to Spain with no passengers onboard. 

On 6 May 2022, local elections were held across the UK in which Boris Johnson’s Conservative party suffered heavy losses.This episode of Jumping Off Points is dedicated to explaining what our local elections are, how a run of T...

On 31 March, ITV News ran a story claiming that Boris Johnson’s Conservative government was planning to abandon its pledge to ban LGBT+ conversion therapy. The second episode of Jumping Off Points explores the political fa...

In 2020, the UK’s Intelligence and Security Committee published a report which assessed the Russian threat to the UK in terms of cyber campaigns, disinformation and political influence. The first episode of Jumping Off Poi...