The answer just now, but even an hour is a long time in politics at the moment so caution, is both. Not only does there appear to be no way forward which with any certainty can deliver an orderly Brexit, but the main parties are splintering and with multi-coloured reasons, ranging from the bitter to […]
There is in parliament a majority willing to pass a sensible deal acceptable to the EU based on a permanent customs union and with a close relationship with the single market. This will protect jobs, businesses, living standards and the economy. It will restrict independent trade deals but preserve 70 we already enjoy through membership […]
The Tory breakaway Three has a different flavour to the Labour Seven (now eight). Before it was a line up of angry and rather bitter also rans who talked mainly about themselves and whose Monday drama had by Wednesday slipped off the headlines. This time it is three Tory women, each of whom is a […]
She was born and raised in the UK. She was at school here. She was on the radar of the authorities as one at risk from radicalisation. At the age of fifteen she succumbed to the blandishments of IS and joined a bloodthirsty movement which promised heaven knows what. It is now confined to a […]
Let’s get several things straight. But first let me say to readers who do not know, I was a founder member of the SDP, I defected from the Tories which made me a novelty, I was SDP Chairman of the City of London and Westminster South and I was close to what was going on […]
In adversarial politics, political parties are essentially tribes. In some countries there is a single party of the left and another of the right. Elsewhere left and right are split into factions or smaller parties which have to come together in a coalition grouping to govern. In the England, which is the dominant country of […]
There is no doubt that Trump’s mania about his wall, which has been thwarted by Mexico, the democrats and enough republicans to stop it when they had control of both the House and the Senate, is now an emergency for his Presidency. The question is, can this be a real national emergency for America? The […]