The House - 17 Nov 2025
‘A MORE POPULAR CAPITALISM’
Sarah Coombes Lord Fowler Helen Grant Claire Hanna
Pat McFadden
Sienna Rodgers
How late filing penalties hammer the poor
MEL STRIDE INTERVIEW
SIR MICHAEL LYONS INTERVIEW
MATTHEW BARNFIELD
BOOKS & CULTURE
WHOSE PARTY?
DAN NEIDLE
MAKING PLANS FOR NIGEL
DIG DEEP
PRAFUL NARGUND
LORD O’DONNELL AND PETER LAMB MP
REBECCA PAUL MP
LUKE AKEHURST MP
BARONESS DEBBONAIRE
SARAH COOMBES MP
CHI ONWURAH MP
JOHN GLEN MP
THE PROF WILL SEE YOU NOW
DAVID TAYLOR MP
HELEN GRANT MP
RECIPES FOR DISASTER
LORD TAVERNE TRIBUTE
HOUSEKEEPING
CROSSWORD
NEWS
FROM THE EDITOR
MPs lobby for staffer AI clause
...The world’s rarest goose
The OBR was built for austerity Britain – not a country that needs to grow
Be careful what you wish for: the BBC must be defended in the run up to charter renewal
Credit crunch
Credit crunch
Defence exports: delivering economic growth
Hell to pay
Pedal to the metal
Five years post Covid-19: ve lessons for the future
Free buses and woke politics? UK Labour has little to learn from Zohran Mamdani’s win
Homeownership shouldn’t be a life sentence – the government must go further on leasehold reform
Arrested development
Arrested development
Powering a secure and a ordable transition: why resilience underpins growth
I’ll cry if I want to
Global Leaders Demand Action as Iran’s Regime Executes One Person Every 3.5 Hours
Accounts due
Recipes for disaster
Jam today (or brown bread tomorrow)
The professor will see you now
Dance is one of humanity’s superpowers, it can be the UK’s too
If the Chancellor breaks her pledge on taxes, Labour will suffer the consequences
No university north of Birmingham was given funds from the Global Talent Fund – that’s indefensible
Victims of child cruelty need more protection – it’s time for a register of offenders
It’s not ‘anti-car’ to enforce the rules against dangerous driving
Voters want to feel better about their lives – if Reeves can deliver that, economic growth and political success will follow
Lord Taverne 18 October 1928 – 25 October 2025
Lord Taverne 18 October 1928 – 25 October 2025
We must review the conditions of the gentoo penguins – treating animals badly is un-British
Movember run
UK v Kazakhstan inter-parliamentary chess match
Remembrance Sunday
Grants for APPGs and charities
St Andrewstide
Deliver Me from Nowhere
An engaging but occasionally baffling book: Lord Lexden reviews Queer Cambridge: An Alternative History
TESTIMONY: Claire Hanna is moved by this film exposing the Irish state’s role in the Magdalene laundries
Close to Power: Lord Fowler recommends former BBC political correspondent Peter Hill’s memoir
Deliver Me from Nowhere
Deliver Me from Nowhere
Close to Power A Westminster Life
Queer Cambridge An Alternative History
Testimony
Testimony
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