The election seems to have resolved nothing and it is much too early to draw any conclusions. But a few observations might be helpful. Unlike the referendum, which was illegal and supported by less than half the electorate, the general election was official and the turnout well over 80%. This gives the poll strong democratic […]
Unusually for a commentator who leans Left, I find much to support in Trump’s new strategic view. I oppose his social conservatism, his vanity leading to spitefulness and I have doubts about trickle down economics. Certainly America needed to do something about business taxes, but bar charts of Federal government deficits over the last thirty […]
For the first time since the 2008 crash the three great economic superpowers, America, China and Japan are all growing fast. Asian markets and the EU are picking up too. The UK is bumping along the bottom, way below the leaders and the EU. Paradoxically this is why we joined the Common market as it […]
On a human level a career wreck is never pretty, but it was obvious from the very beginning that the double accusations of inappropriate touching of a highly respected female journalist and porn on the office computer, made it inevitable that Damien Green would have to go sooner or later. He should have insisted on […]
After two major government meetings, of the Brexit Cabinet and the full Cabinet, we are back in the old quagmire of GB seeking to negotiate something which has already been signed away and because the EU will never agree anyway. To get the Ireland deal we have agreed that if no Brexit deal is fixed, […]
Yes is the answer. It may literally implode or it may fizzle out, but it is over. There are several reasons. The first and foremost is that whatever you think about Trump, the collusion concept was ridiculous, because it would be impossible to prove, was clearly a desperate attempt to derail the Trump Presidency at […]
A minority of voters, perhaps 20%, voted to leave the EU because they dislike foreigners, they distrust the continent and they wanted to cut adrift from the European family no matter what the cost and disadvantage to Britain. In their eyes to be poor is a price worth paying to be pure. But they provide […]
Austerity began in 2010 to achieve certain well defined goals within a certain time frame. All of these were missed. Yet austerity carried on. And on. And on. Whilst the political class is debauching on Brexit, much of which is a fantasy of its own making, a new economic reality is seeping into every nook […]
Hardly more than days ago May was near the bottom of a slippery slope down which she had been sliding since her calamitous election debacle. A divided cabinet with leadership contenders following their own agenda in defiance of hers. On issues of policy her hands were tied by Brexiteer zealots and, via the DUP, Protestant […]
Coming on top of her perceived success the week before, the misjudgments by Tory Party managers which led to last night’s game changer, are par for the course of this ill starred administration. It will take some of the shine off May as she appears in Brussels today, as will the ill judged comments of […]