Mid way through last week I was telling friends that I reckoned Boris could ride out partygate and reach the local elections. He would then run a personal campaign to pull out Tory votes in May by travelling all over England to barnstorm and bribe with his usual false promises. If the outcome was losses […]
The answer is firmly yes. It is a slap in the face to the notion, proclaimed by many Tories in 2019, that like Thatcher, Boris would go on and on. Because it is now clear that his days are numbered. Too many lies, too much bluster, too little attention to detail. Chaos in the chain […]
Omicron is a super-spreader. It is sweeping the country. Anyone not fully jabbed or immune through recent infection, is likely to get it. Some will need medical help and will require hospitalisation. A few will sadly die. Even those fully vaccinated can get this latest variant, but although they can transmit it, they are unlikely […]
It was a concept built on lies, delivered to feed raw nationalism, to achieve a ‘have our cake and eat it’ outcome, which was never realistic and never on offer. Not only is it one of the greatest political mistakes in our history, it is one of the most disreputable. The referendum which enabled it […]
That depends on many things. Circumstances, choices, opportunities, both good and bad. Of course Covid still looms, but for the purpose of these thoughts, let us move past the pandemic. Overall there is now an underlying current driven by COP26, with much more widespread recognition of the threats posed by climate change and this will […]
For over a decade I have been writing and blogging about the weaknesses in our state structures, the need to reform and the rough and tumble of politics generally. The underlying core of Western society, its ambitions and aspirations remained constant. We were so pleased with the way we were, that we even sought to […]
There was a time when I thought my early assessment of Boris as a clown and a liar was too harsh. I began to to see beneath the bravado an astute politician who saw the injustice of Thatcherism being retained as a political blueprint, when times and people had changed. Who shifted the Tory party […]
This blog has always predicted that in the end the West’s well meaning efforts to bring Afghanistan into the modern world would fail, not least because of the utter corruption of the so called democratic structures which NATO propped up for far too long. The political reluctance of the West to deal with the obvious […]
In the commentary following what many found a surprising decision by the Bank of England not to raise interest rates yet, one or two economists wondered out loud whether central banks are the right institutions to be taking decisions which have such far reaching effects on the lives of ordinary people. It is not very […]