This tottering Tory government is now under continuous bombardment from disasters of which it is the author. Brexit is in a mess in whichever direction you look; even Boris and Farage are beginning to have doubts disguised as flag waving for a cause fraudulently presented to voters as a proposition of opportunity, which in the […]
With the unique dynamics of the Trump presidency we will never know. Certainly there is much to criticise about the decision to build a fortress style new U.S. embassy off the beaten track south of the Thames at Nine Elms. The money and the location should both have been a no no at every level, […]
It was bound to happen. The moment when everybody admits the NHS is underfunded and unable to deliver to an acceptable standard. No amount of commissioning boards, quangos and regulators can disguise this simple truth, obvious to many including this blog for some years. The notion that you can provide an infinite service, which must […]
Phase One saw May sign up in the end to everything the EU demanded at the very beginning of the negotiations. Now we find Davis and Hammond trying to persuade the Germans to back the continuation of free access of GB financial services to the single market, including passporting, even though it is our intention […]
May was riding , after her post election misfortunes, high before the Christmas break, having secured both consent for the deal struck with the EU at the end of Phase One and the backing of her fellow EU leaders. There was trouble with her friend Damien, but that could easily be fixed at the much […]
It is no exaggeration to say that the world is now gripped with a new twist in the story of Donald Trump, as a consequence of alleged disclosures upcoming in a new book by Michael Wolff. A big public row has broken out between Steve Bannon and his former boss, the details of which are […]
We are in a country in which when it snows everything stops, the NHS goes into a crisis if people fall ill, we vote for Brexit without knowing what it involves, we tell public servants they can only have a 1% pay rise but we put up season tickets on the trains by over 3%, […]
This blog returns from the holiday break with a few thoughts for 2018. North Korea Kim Jon Un has declared in his New Year message that his country now has intercontinental nuclear armed missiles which can strike anywhere in the US. He also says that he will never use them to attack in a first […]