Having scattered the ERG to the four winds May looks to be in danger of throwing her advantage away if she refuses to budge on any significant red lines. She will have to give away something in order to achieve a compromise with Labour. Meanwhile there is absolutely no doubt that Britain’s reputation as a […]
The issue which everybody feared is now proven beyond doubt. Malfunctioning software in a safety system proved catastrophic, wresting control of the plane from the pilots and crashing the otherwise normally functioning aircraft. This happened twice. The entire fleet of 737 Max is grounded. Boeing expect all to be airborne again in weeks following a […]
The answer is Yes. But not beyond repair. The Tory and Labour front benches now have to give up party politics and stem the rising waters of an emergency engulfing the very stability of the United Kingdom. Neither leads a united party. May leads little more than half a party, and only for the moment. […]
If the Democrats choose Joe biden to beat Trump in 2020, they will lose. He has many qualities. He is very experienced, well liked, steady and level headed, already a proven statesman and he understands how the world works. Correction. How the world used to work. That is the problem. It is a bigger problem […]
She had become a byword for disaster. Wherever she went defeat was her handmaiden. Then suddenly out of nowhere she corralled her dog fight cabinet for eight solid hours, having seized their phones, so that they were cut off from leaking to the outside world or being briefed by their many factions. First they were […]
This blog has no time for the DUP which has brought down power sharing in Northern Ireland and is now making organised government in the UK impossible. It is a Leave party, but Northern Ireland voted Remain. It is against the Backstop but the majority in NI favour it. It claims to put the Union […]
The nation, indeed the world, looks on in disbelief as the hope that parliament having taken control, showed it could exercise it, passes in another string of Nos. This is because there is no spirit of compromise at one level and at another far too many members have no idea what they are doing or […]