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Today Kent's councils wrote to the government to suggest what the county could look like after the biggest local government shake up in 50 years. Here's my piece summarising the reforms and what politicians think of them: kentonline.co.uk/kent/news/what…

A column I’ve written on the division of Kent into new councils, the political and cultural geography of the county, and how the reorganisation could risk solidifying all the ailments we already have kentonline.co.uk/news/opinion/w…

I’ve written a column about why Londoners moving to Kent isn’t a bad thing, and why the local politics of ‘anti-gentrification’ are a dead end search.app/qEh1AR9wfyVcFv…

In Dover this morning Nigel Farage has announced his party will create a Minister for Deportations if they win the next general election, and says Reform will give the Tories a kicking at next week’s Kent County Council elections kentonline.co.uk/kent/news/nige…

Anti-immigration protest in Dover this morning, passing through the town centre We’ll be updating all day on KentOnline

Now both groups in the town centre - counter protestors significantly outnumbered, only a handful

Paul Golding of Britain First is here, met with support from protestors - saying “the illegal immigration crisis is out of control”

My write up from me and Gabriel Morris’ day at an immigration protest in Dover. Overall relatively calm, plenty of verbal abuse etc but no arrests, a few big faces of the radical right, and the bikers and right wing massively outnumbered the counter-demo kentonline.co.uk/kent/news/live…

Very happy to have featured briefly in today’s BBC Radio 4 Today Programme, talking a little bit about the politics of planning and housing in Tunbridge Wells. Piece is at about 1hr30 for anyone interested bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

I'm in Dover today covering the Kent County Council election results across Dover, Deal, Sandwich and everywhere in between. We'll be updating on the results across the county all day on KentOnline: kentonline.co.uk/kent/news/part…

If you're keen for some analysis this local election day, I've written about first-past-the-post, Peter Mair's idea of the void between politics and the public, and how the traditional mainstream parties are out for the count: kentonline.co.uk/news/opinion/c…

Reform UK have taken control of Kent County Council today - winning enough for a majority. Here in Dover, they took every single seat up for grabs Results are still coming in: kentonline.co.uk/kent/news/part…

Not all the seats are declare yet - but here's my analysis of Reform UK taking control of Kent. Being in power can often be the death of insurgent anti-establishment parties. They'll also have to choose a new leader to lead KCC, knives probably out already kentonline.co.uk/kent/news/can-…

Very pleased to have been interviewed for Small Boats: the Border Conundrum last year. I'll be at the Kent Graduate Law Student Conference next Tuesday for a screening and a Q&A with producers Anne Daguerre and Nick Lazar: eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-universi… smallboatsdocumentary.com

I wrote an article about defections and spats in local councils, factionalism, and why the most important political conflicts are often within parties, rather than between them kentonline.co.uk/news/opinion/t…