Adam Boulton
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Why straight-talking Kate Forbes could open up a future for tired SNP
Kate Forbes did not hide her conservative Christian views in interviews when she launched her SNP leadership campaign. If she is able to stay in contention, it is possible that the membership will be more tolerant than her colleagues at the top of the party. → Read More
There's an explosion in AI interest but there's lots of life left in real human intelligence
AI programmes are already running into trouble because of the imperfect thoughts of the human sources they draw on. There's no evidence today that computers armed with AI will outwit or replace our species - unless we ask them to. → Read More
Adam Boulton: Westminster's 'nepo babies' are here to stay
Westminster has its own fair share of nepo babies - in the current parliament, elected in 2019, 49 MPs are listed as being related to other current or former members. That amounts to one MP in thirteen, 7.5% of the total membership of 650. → Read More
Adam Boulton: Long Johnson is still plaguing the Tories
Those worried about the health of British politics have diagnosed a new disease at Westminster. → Read More
There's a dilemma at the heart of the NHS
The NHS was born in 1948 and since then its core principles have remained, even though the health care needs facing Britain in 2023 are vastly different. But with voters demanding more without paying more for it, how can things improve? → Read More
It's difficult not to see parallels between chaos of US Republican party and UK Conservatives
Whether it's the "swamp" or "Westminster bubble", on both sides of the Atlantic, politicians have endorsed purges of those they disagree with. → Read More
World politics and power - the dates and trends that will help shape 2023
We cannot foresee the epoch-defining shocks of the future but moving forward into the new year also involves reflecting on the hard lessons from the past. → Read More
Adam Boulton: The glimmers of hope and reasons to be cheerful as 2022 ends
From Russia's invasion of Ukraine to the cost of living crisis, there have been enough problems to paint a very dark picture of 2022. But there are also glimmers of hope, offering some reasons to be cheerful as we head into a new year. → Read More
There's cold comfort for the homeless this Christmas amid the economic crisis
As many people look forward to the comforts of the annual yuletide festival, they are also likely to be troubled by remembering those who have no warm hearth to welcome them this year. → Read More
The invisible prime minister with the dullness dividend: Why Sunak's keeping a low profile
Beyond a list of unmissable prime ministerial engagements at home and abroad, Rishi Sunak has scarcely been seen in public or on social media. Tory voices have joined his opponents attacking him as an "invisible prime minister". → Read More
Starmer's sly dig over private school tax stirs up hornet's nest that could leave him stung
The Labour leader this week took aim at Rishi Sunak's expensive and elite private school - but economic arguments are not as clear cut as either he or Conservative ministers suggest. → Read More
Adam Boulton: Is Britain's year of strikes headed for an uprising?
This has unquestionably been a year of strikes, with 560,00 working days lost in August and September - almost twice the total for whole years recently - and industrial actions still mounting. Given that, are we heading for a general strike? → Read More
The half-in, half-out attitude to the World Cup exposes the contradictions of international diplomacy
Controversy has grown in the run up to the World Cup and while Western nations are entitled to criticise Qatar, it's hypocritical to castigate the country or to seek to "cancel" football's showpiece event. → Read More
US midterms are a very unreliable way of predicting the next president
It is unwise to read too much into the midterms or to pay much attention to the same pundits who told us that President Trump in 2024 was practically a locked-on certainty, writes Adam Boulton. → Read More
Rishi Sunak will be at Egypt's COP27 climate talks
While Rishi Sunak made a point of announcing that he was not going to COP27, Boris Johnson confirmed on Sky News that he'll be attending. The successful hosting of last year's COP is one of the bright spots of his tarnished premiership. → Read More
Rishi Sunak has the demeanour of a grown-up
Rishi Sunak became prime minister this week because the party and public are craving stability, and hope he will be 'the grown-up in the room' and 'a safe pair of hands', Adam Boulton says. → Read More
Tory leadership: The case for and against another 'disrupter' prime minister I Adam Boulton
Rishi Sunak and Penny Mordaunt are the frontrunners to be the next prime minister, but support is growing for Boris Johnson to make a return. → Read More
U-turns are seldom fatal - but can be a symptom of overconfident governments
Adam Boulton looks back at U-turns of the past, and the impact of the most recent reversal by Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng. → Read More
Did Truss and Kwarteng's mini-budget fall foul of the autumn curse?
For more than six decades, some of the UK's most devastating economic events have happened under an autumn cloud. Is history repeating itself? → Read More
We speak the same language and share historical roots but UK/US interests not always the same
The cold splash of reality over trade relations will not have surprised British diplomats or politicians who have long recognised that, for all the talk of "the special relationship", the UK's relationship with the US is fundamentally transactional. → Read More