May is right to say she is not a quitter. She is nothing if not stubborn. But she lacks imagination, she finds intuitive decision making impossible and relies on an almost never ending process of review and research as the best way forward. The result is lofty speeches on intentions but total failure to deliver […]
Yes. On three fronts. It cannot agree within itself what sort of Brexit to aim for. The EU on the other hand knows pretty well what it is willing to agree to. Negotiations are being conducted to different agendas. There is an increasing fog developing about where we are and where we are headed. Whitehall […]
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Wall Street is booming, for which a gleeful Trump takes the credit. If the economy continues to boom Trump stands every chance of winning mid-term and again in 2020. I watch Rasmussen and he remains steady, fluctuating between 40 and 46. If there is a third party candidate at any election Trump will break through, […]
Lord O’Neil, one of the economists whom this Blog admires, predicts that the surge in world trade could help GB entirely offset the effects of Brexit. He stresses, as a Remainer, we would be doing much better still if we were not trying to leave the EU. This is encouraging news for sure, although there […]
Nigel Farage is reported to be considering the formation of a new Brexit party, because his first one, UKIP, is disintegrating. Farage worries that the case for Brexit is being lost. He is dead right. Not because of UKIP, but because there is no case for Brexit. It was a con from the start. Brits […]
A new European leader has arrived on the world stage. At first people were not sure, but now it is clear that President Macron is a strong reformist leader who is not only changing France, with remarkably little domestic resistance from a country averse to change, but also impacting Europe and Brexit. Merkel, the EU […]
Once again the Federal Government shuts down because Congress cannot agree a budget. Key departments continue, but non-essentials are stopped. The rest of the world is somewhat bemused by this, at least to the extent that it is even mildly interested. But it has happened before. And the U.S. is still there. Sooner or later […]
There is something deeply disturbing to find oneself living in a country which, in addition to mounting problems in its public services generally, neglects its prisons, creating cruel and inhuman conditions in which vulnerable human beings are incarcerated. This is surely a mark of a country suffering appalling incompetence of governance? How we got here […]
The Carillion collapse reveals the extent of government outsourcing in a dramatic style, which is making large numbers of ordinary people who have never thought about it before, sit up and wonder. All of this stems from changes introduced by Thatcher and continued by both the Major and Blair governments. Innocent and modest in scope […]