Rich Durber Articles

British politics loves to borrow from American politics. Whether their rallies, their slogans or their advisers, if something is happening across the pond, it seems we just cannot help but want a piece of the action. One thing it seems we have never been tempted by...

If there was any question as to whether a shadow European Union referendum campaign is under way, then this week confirmed it beyond all doubt. Those who favour a referendum were out in force beginning with John Longford, director general of the British Chambers of...

In 2010 the television debates turned Nick Clegg into the plucky outsider. Since Clegg threw his lot in with David Cameron and the Tories however, many have assumed that it would be Nigel Farage who occupied the ‘Nick Clegg’ role this time around. Not any more,...

Mario Cuomo, the former governor of New York who sadly passed away last week, famously said politicians ‘campaign in poetry, but govern in prose’. Yet on Monday when the main parties marked the start of their general election campaigns, it seemed like both were firmly...