Callum Jones

Yesterday, at the so-called "rose garden re-launch", a worker put a question to the Prime Minister and his Deputy that told more than it asked. Due to the vast differences between Conservative and Liberal ideologies concocting what the questioner called "watered down policies", he asked what could be done over...

It's a journalistic cliché, but it's safe to say we have just witnessed the government's worst week so far. What made it so significant was that it was the Conservatives that bore the brunt of the crises, not the Liberal Democrats. Whilst he hung with Obama in South Korea, there...

In 1947, whilst Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Dalton was on his way to deliver his annual budget in the Commons, he made a brief stop to chat to a journalist. In this conversation, he disclosed a few quotes and statistics he was just about to announce. The journalist- John...

Allow me to let you in on a little-known secret. The unwritten rules of teenage social status mean that political writers don't make it up very high on the food chain. If someone at my college asks me what I did the night before, I usually opt for convenient memory...

We live in a world where, if someone starts up a campaign, they don't head to Westminster, but Fleet Street. An individual politician does not have the same popularity, respect, or credibility that an individual newspaper has. A rambling speech in the Commons is dwarfed in influence when compared to...

Who coined the phrase 'slow-news summers'? In August, the Libyan Civil War dragged on, and the rebels' success caused Gaddafi's regime to behave increasingly erratically.

Sky News correspondent Mark Stone, who posted video updates on YouTube during his time in Tripoli earlier in 2011, described to me...

As fireworks lit up the skies and 2011 began, we knew little about the year we were welcoming. Of course, we were preparing for a royal wedding and predicting our chapter of austerity had barely begun. Yet, we had no idea that the global stage would alter so drastically. We...

Out of context, what Jeremy Clarkson said on The One Show on Wednesday was disgusting and wrong. Granted- even in context, the entertainer's choice of vocabulary didn't make the joke particularly entertaining. However, does anyone else feel like yet another anti-BBC bandwagon has hit the road?

The gag was simple....

And so, the "hackgate" scandal returns to the front pages. When James Murdoch walks into Portcullis House on Thursday morning, I presume he shall do so with a degree of timidity. He is meeting with the Culture, Media and Sport Committee to discuss phone hacking and further allegations of illegality...

It is the elephant of too many rooms. The complexity of the British membership of the European Union has caused controversy for decades. Should we stay or should we go? The debate in Commons on Monday will not decide the outcome of the heated argument, but it will suggest whether...

It's not a question of whether Liam Fox was a victim of a media witch-hunt or whether he simply broke the rules and faced the music. When David Cameron stood outside that black door in May last year, he promised a "clean, transparent" style of governance. He knew, following the...

It was marred by protests, a victim of the standard ministerial gaffes and the final event of the annual season, but it was the way that the 2011 Conservative Party Conference clashed with the European economic crisis that made it so significant. We had been expecting the usual Tory PR...

As I look back at my initial hopes for the Labour Party this week, it's safe to say that none of them quite came true.

This event in Liverpool gave Ed Miliband and his team a number of opportunities. I wanted Labour to advertise some of their strong Shadow Cabinet...

I'll let you in on a secret; I'm not an expert at this. I haven't had the years of experience that Nick Robinson, Krishnan Guru-Murthy or the great Andy Sparrow are blessed with, which makes me greatly appreciate the fact you're currently reading my...

The following piece refers to "The Future Electorate; the Problems with Politics". Read the report here.

Earlier on this month, as my summer drew to a close, I published a report online in time for parliament's return on 5th September. It had taken the majority of my summer...

This is my third attempt to draft a piece on the recent break through in Tripoli by the National Transitional Council. It felt wrong to publish the first draft on Sunday evening when so much was changing so quickly. Yesterday, the second attempt looked too far ahead, but I may...

Both David Cameron and Ed Miliband have made speeches over the past week about the underlying issues of British society. The civil unrest that besieged our streets last week has forced it under a very bright spotlight, and every aspect of our culture is now firmly...

In early 2009, the annual figures for music download sales during the previous year showed that legal downloads had helped the music industry to grow by about twenty percent. However, alongside these figures came another statistic, and this one was extremely concerning. Of all the songs, videos and other files...

The revelations earlier this month of phone hacking taking place at News International may have somewhat damaged Rupert Murdoch's empire, but they have also shone a light on the ethics of the British Media industry as a whole. I may not be experienced or qualified enough to cast a serious...

Poll analysts and political intellects may be fairly inconsistent when stating more general theories, but it is broadly accepted across by most that politicians are granted "honeymoon" phases when gaining power, be it of their constituency, political party or the country. However, this was not a luxury granted to Ed...