Politically nobody knows how today will end. Unlike the dawn of a great battle, where there are two sides and for one of which the day will end well, or at least better than the other, there are in the UK such splits and factions that however it ends, few, if any will be winners. […]
After a lot of optimistic leaks and noises, together with self important wisdoms from a phalanx of Brexit lawyers, once again talks with the EU have ground to a halt. The reason is the same as it has been from the very beginning. May does not listen. She keeps going back, or sending ministers back, […]
This Blog has no real experience of Labour’s antisemitism problem other than the fact that it is a constant running sore. Clearly there can be no anti semitism in Labour or any other political party. At the same time the party must be given time for its new systems and processes to bed in. Moreover […]
Like Trump in the US who carries on undamaged by scandal, mishap, revelation and resignation, so May survives as head of a government of undreamed of incompetence at almost every level. The Brexit negotiations have been mismanaged, miscalculations abound, wishful thinking has become the preferred modus, yet she carries on. There is an explanation, although […]