The whole world shares America’s grief at the terrible mass shooting in which 17 children and teachers were gunned to death and many others badly injured. But then come the questions. Why does America do nothing about the root cause; the constitutional right for every citizen to bear arms? No other country in the world […]
People who see Brexit as a disaster do so because, by any rational measure, politically, economically and socially, it is. Boris has not, once again, advanced one single fact or figure which can offer any tangible prospect of an uplift in people’s lives as a consequence of this ridiculous adventure. What he did do is […]
There are three sea changes in the environment of modern life. These are the beginning. Others will follow. They are diverse at one level, but connected at another. Though each is unique in its time and way, the change process which brought it into being is both normal and good. Because what they are changing […]
This Blog often finds itself defending Trump, or at least taking a positive view of America’s rather turbulent direction of travel. Unfortunately the Trump presidency is always awash with blown up dramas of Trump gaffes, u-turns, insults and self-congratulation which certainly make the news story that he is like no other occupant of the White […]
So the two much trumpeted meetings of the so called War Cabinet, the cabinet sub-committee of senior ministers trying to work out what sort of Brexit they want, failed once again to agree. This is because half of them want to leave the EU without an agreement, cut adrift from everything EU and go WTO. […]
It is an inherent feature of Trump’s persona is that he only does beautiful. Put simply he claims the credit when things go right, but tries to duck away when things go wrong. So when he claimed the credit for the record rise in US stocks, he also bought into ownership when the market crashes. […]
No wonder Michel Barnier has said that trade barriers are unavoidable if we leave the customs union and single market. The government talks with many voices, all of which are conflicting. The hapless Brexit Committee is to meet twice this week to try to agree something, but there is no point in coming up with […]
Whilst in China May declared that she wants to negotiate the best deal for Britain, without specifying what is best, for whom and why. Thus neither her Cabinet, the EU, business, the public sector nor the person in the street has a clue what she wants. This is because the Tory party is split between […]
The Chief Inspector of Schools has rightly pointed up the fact that in our drive to show tolerance to all forms of religion we have allowed the setting up of educational programmes which teach extreme intolerance of many aspects of our culture and way of life. This Blog has from the very beginning been opposed […]
The answer is Yes, with a proviso at the end of this post. Oddly Fire and Fury has helped Trump as much as it has enriched its author. Without getting into the argument of how much of the book is true and what is invention or misinformation, the disclosures about the shock in Trump Tower […]