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

*Comment & Analysis

A protester shouts slogans outside the US embassy in Athens during a demonstration against Israel's offensive in the Gaza Strip on Thursday

Week in Review: The war which separated Israel from the world

*Blog

Blinded by cash: Ministers press on with private prisons, despite evidence of failure

Why private prisons don’t work

*Blog

Grayling: Presiding over catastrophe at the MoJ

Even the MoJ admits it: The prison system under Grayling is falling apart

News

A 75-foot banner is unfurled along Westminster Bridge

Pro-Gaza demo on Westminster Bridge as outrage grows over school bombing

*Blog

Booked: Deportees typically are taken to short-term accommodation before the flight

Harper gets his way: Minister’s cleaner is deported

News

Grayling: Tidal wave of books expected after Howard League asks supporters to mail them to justice secretary

Prison book ban: Grayling faces flood of books as campaigners step up protest

News

Palestinians look through the doors at Kamal Adwan hospital, where victims were brought following an Israeli strike on a UN school in Jabalia refugee camp

Western opinion ‘rapidly turning against Israel’ foreign secretary admits

Admission comes as news emerges of the bombing of another UN school, leading to at least 15 deaths

*Blog

Deported: Dates swapped for window as protests increase

Protests force new deportation black-out system

Deportation date swapped for deportation window as protest movement forces Home Office to change tactics

News

Revenge porn can be clamped down on using existing laws, peers say

No need for revenge porn law, peers say

*Blog

Confidential: Civil servants have found many ways to avoid the FoI Act

How Whitehall neutered the Freedom of Information Act

News

Departures: One in six Scots would consider leaving under independence

Exodus: One in six Scots would leave country under independence

*Blog

The UN: The bastion of drug criminalisation is starting to change its approach

Brave New World: Even the UN is open to drug decriminalisation

News

Grayling misled the Commons when he denied a lottery system was in place for probation services

Privatisation admission shows Grayling misled the Commons

News

Protestors got inside the building and put up sheets of papers with the names of the Gaza dead

Govt blockaded as protestors take Gaza fight to Whitehall

*Comment & Analysis

Mark Harper: Brought back into government as Isabella Acevedo is put in a detention centre

Immigrant stories: The minister’s cleaner

News

Critics say the new surveillance law puts British citizens at greater risk of cyber crime

‘Ripe for the courts’: Emergency surveillance law faces legal challenge

*Blog

Palestinian boy sits on the rubble of a destroyed building following an Israeli air strike earlier today. Air strikes killed at least seven people in Gaza, including five members of the same family, an emergency services spokesman said.

How Britain profits from the attack on Gaza

*Blog

A dawn raid by police: Even those who want a crack-down on immigration can be uncomfortable with the tactic

When the Home Office comes for you at your daughter’s wedding

*Blog

Gambling with Scotland's future: Salmond needs to offer a Plan B to currency union

No ifs, no buts: Salmond must put his cards on the table

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