Democrats should be cautious about spending too much political capital chasing after Trump via the Mueller Report. There is no real polling evidence that any of this investigation has impacted the President’s popularity, which today stands at 47%. A higher percentage of Americans from both parties are tired of the whole thing and want to […]
It sadly comes as no surprise, although the shock and revulsion is undiminished, that there has been a spate of bombings of Christian worshippers in Sri lanka. This comes after attacks on Mosques in New Zealand and elsewhere. The terrible thing about any religious violence is that the perpetrators believe the god they worship is […]
The political class in Westminster has never been held in such low esteem, not just by the voters who elected it, but by the world at large. Right across the public services there is a failure to deliver to a sufficient standard as a direct result of endless austerity. Within the civil service there are […]
When they were introduced I thought they were good. The problem with primary education at that time was that it was lacking in focus, perhaps high on wellbeing which was good, but lacking in learning, which was bad. Spelling, reading, tables and arithmetic were often handled in such a whimsical fashion that home tutoring in […]
It was one of those news moments you always remember. Switching on the TV to see rolling coverage of Notre Dame ablaze. Notre Dame is France It is the nation wrought in stone and wood. It is the very soul of the French people. So, as their President said, France itself was on fire. In […]
In the context of the original offer, yes it is. There may be some fudge type Brexit, or the whole thing may be abandoned. But the simple notion of a clean break, Global Britain, national independence and so on is just not possible. It was an ideal nurtured by mainly a fringe minority of English […]
Many commentators and this blog have for long castigated May for not reaching out to the opposition parties, especially to Labour, earlier. Had she done so at the beginning everything would now be sorted, or so we proclaimed. But recent events reveal a much deeper fissure in May’s power base, her party in parliament, than […]
This item is taken from the BBC News Website. A brave move and so very right. A Tory MP has quit the Eurosceptic European Research Group, claiming a “hardcore element of ‘Unicorn’ dreamers [are] now actually endangering Brexit”. Daniel Kawczynski voted against Theresa May’s Brexit deal twice, before deciding to back her withdrawal agreement last […]
We now await news that Downing Street has made an offer of compromise to Labour which paves the way for an orderly Brexit. If this is not forthcoming and the government cannot agree with Labour a set of meaningful votes, with a voting system designed to produce a winner, we move into a vortex with […]