A festival debut

As it’s World Book Day, it seemed an apt time to announce that I will be making my literary festival debut next month! I’m very pleased to have been invited to join the line-up at the Hexham Book Festival at the end of April. It will be the first time I’ve spoken at such an…

#OppositionCast is back!

After a bit of a break last year whilst I was busy writing books, I’m really pleased to be back this month presenting #OppositionCast for the Centre for Opposition Studies, the research centre that I co-founded many years ago. The podcast was launched back in 2020 in the days of social distancing, as we all…

New Year, new book!

Typical – you wait ages for a book from me, and then two come along in close succession… Following on from the publication of The Not Quite Prime Ministers in September, Institutionalised Dissent: The Official Opposition in the UK since 1935 has now just been published by Routledge. This one is rather different though. For…


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