After a lot of optimistic leaks and noises, together with self important wisdoms from a phalanx of Brexit lawyers, once again talks with the EU have ground to a halt. The reason is the same as it has been from the very beginning. May does not listen. She keeps going back, or sending ministers back, […]
This Blog has no real experience of Labour’s antisemitism problem other than the fact that it is a constant running sore. Clearly there can be no anti semitism in Labour or any other political party. At the same time the party must be given time for its new systems and processes to bed in. Moreover […]
Like Trump in the US who carries on undamaged by scandal, mishap, revelation and resignation, so May survives as head of a government of undreamed of incompetence at almost every level. The Brexit negotiations have been mismanaged, miscalculations abound, wishful thinking has become the preferred modus, yet she carries on. There is an explanation, although […]
The answer just now, but even an hour is a long time in politics at the moment so caution, is both. Not only does there appear to be no way forward which with any certainty can deliver an orderly Brexit, but the main parties are splintering and with multi-coloured reasons, ranging from the bitter to […]
There is in parliament a majority willing to pass a sensible deal acceptable to the EU based on a permanent customs union and with a close relationship with the single market. This will protect jobs, businesses, living standards and the economy. It will restrict independent trade deals but preserve 70 we already enjoy through membership […]
The Tory breakaway Three has a different flavour to the Labour Seven (now eight). Before it was a line up of angry and rather bitter also rans who talked mainly about themselves and whose Monday drama had by Wednesday slipped off the headlines. This time it is three Tory women, each of whom is a […]
She was born and raised in the UK. She was at school here. She was on the radar of the authorities as one at risk from radicalisation. At the age of fifteen she succumbed to the blandishments of IS and joined a bloodthirsty movement which promised heaven knows what. It is now confined to a […]