Ian Dunt

Ian Dunt served as the editor-at-large of Politics.co.uk until 2021. He is 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

"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

*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

*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

The government has achieved very little over the last year

*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

The hidden data the Home Office doesn’t want to make public

*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

*Blog

Vote on child refugees last night

Mea culpa? Why pairing should have been mentioned more prominently in this piece

News

Analysis by the Liberal Democrat whips’ office shows over 20 Labour MPs failed to vote against the government last night

Absent Labour MPs allowed government to block child refugee measure

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