Ian Dunt

Ian Dunt is editor-at-large of Politics.co.uk, a regular host on the Oh God What Now podcast, a columnist for the New European and the i newspaper, and the author of two books: Brexit: What The Hell Happens Now and How To Be A Liberal.

Latest articles

*Blog

New figures show the number of people wishing to study in the UK long-term have fallen to their lowest level since 2007

An act of national self-harm: Foreign students stay away following Tory attack

*Blog

"You can't make a man whose body language and expressions are innately jarring look like a compelling proposition to the public"

PMQs verdict: Osborne would be a disastrous Tory leader

*Blog

"But Vote Leave are now just another political grouping defined by the child-like paranoia and mean-spiritedness of the digital age"

Vote Leave embarrass themselves with conspiracy theories

*Blog

"They've now got these extraordinarily expansive drug powers which ban drugs which don't even exist yet"

Very quietly, Home Office backs down on Psychoactive Substances Act

*Blog

"He keeps making arguments so fierce that they immediately raise questions about why he would have created this situation in the first place"

EU referendum: The prime minister is either a liar or dangerously incompetent

*Blog

The Home Office is providing shop owners with guidance on how to sell whipped cream spray

Policing whipped cream: Home Office publishes advice for Psychoactive Substances Act

*Comment & Analysis

"Fox offers a lucid, level-headed warning to safe space critics to conduct themselves according to the values they hold: free speech and intellectual engagement"

Review: I Find That Offensive, by Claire Fox

A remarkable new book tries to get to the heart of the contradictions in the safe spaces movement

*Blog

"It's a rather humdrum Queen's Speech for a weird period in the political cycle"

Vague, meaningless and misleading: The worst bits of the Queen’s Speech

The Queen’s speech included plenty of rhetoric but very little substance

*Blog

"The real reason the government is struggling to pass legislation is because it is inept"

Queen’s Speech: A timely reminder of how incompetent the Tories are

*Blog

"In his short visit, he saw two instances of pregnant women with abdominal pain not being properly managed"

Pregnant women in detention centres kept hidden by the Home Office

*Blog

"We've been watching this get worse and worse for years now"

Lock-em-up brigade have created a prison crisis

*Blog

The length of Corbyn’s questions allows Cameron to just pick whichever part is easiest for him to answer

PMQs verdict: Corbyn is becoming an embarrassment

*Blog

"That's how the Putins of the world work: they pass vaguely-worded legislation which gives them maximum room to manoeuvre"

The powers Theresa May is asking for would make Putin blush

*Blog

"It will be a travesty if the government which finally dismantles it does so with the connivance of the activist left"

The activist left is conspiring in the demolition of the BBC

*Blog

"Hamilton has suddenly rediscovered his Welsh roots during the campaign"

Neil Hamilton and Mark Reckless: Even in victory, Ukip is a party of has-beens

*Blog

Party members celebrate after Kayte Block (second left) wins the Labour seat for Vange ward during the election count for Basildon

The Walking Dead: Zombie result is worst possible outcome for Labour

*Blog

"No-one watching today’s session could have emerged with much faith in the British political class"

PMQs verdict: Cameron cheapens himself with hypocritical anti-racist attack

*Blog

"Monitoring boards, with their local knowledge and daily visits, could be doing so much more to scrutinise and assess what is happening and to help prisoners"

Targeting the whistleblower: Prison critic fights for her job

*Blog

"Roberston - nationalists warts and all - showed what a leader of the opposition should look like"

PMQs verdict: Angus Robertson is becoming the unofficial leader of the opposition

Ian Dunt

Latest articles

Most Popular

Most Popular

Opinion Former news