Having wizzed round the Awesome Foursome, as he likes to call the four nations of the United Kingdom, Boris’s whirlwind tour has not brought much clarity, other than the fact that almost everybody everywhere is against a no deal Brexit. It is reported that Frost, the new chief negotiator for the Boris Number Ten regime, […]
Blair’s spin doctor supreme and guardian of the New Labour ideal of sofa government and establishment cocktails, is very unhappy about Corbyn and has been saying nasty things about the party under his leadership. The problem however is that during the New Labour era, the working class were turned off by the pink Thatcherism it […]
Sir Richard Henriques does not mince his words in his article in today’s Daily Mail. If there is one thing which must strike a chill to the bone of a free democratic society, it is a police force whose integrity is open to question. At any level and in any circumstances. His detailed account not […]
As expected there is a Boris bounce to give the Tories between two and five point leads in various opinion polls. This would not, with the Lib Dems, Brexit Party and Greens in play, give him a majority in parliament. Almost more significant, any other leader than Corbyn would give Labour a major lead and […]
Since the Tories formed their own majority administration in 2015, they have given the country the worst period of fumbling, bumbling, government in modern times and perhaps ever in its democratic history. There is now something approaching national despair at the spectacle of every public service malfunctioning at some level, humiliations on the international stage, […]
The stricken Tory party was motivated by the barnstorming performance of the new Prime Minister yesterday. He is the best crowd pleasing politician in the UK, perhaps in Europe and among the world’s top five. And so far getting elected leader of the party has been all about pleasing crowds. Indeed it has been, and […]
Nobody saw it coming. Within a few hours of his arriving in Number Ten in the late afternoon, the biggest cabinet massacre in modern history was complete. 17 gone in record time and replaced. Nothing like it in living memory. The full cabinet gathered for its first meeting at 8.30 am today. Theresa May received […]
Politics is never straightforward. Nor is is it always obvious. So while the eyes of the world are now transfixed at the spectacle, and spectacle it certainly is, of Boris the Clown becoming Boris the Ringmaster (more about that later) it may be that history will see greater significance in the election of Jo Swinson […]
It is bad enough that the whole government is paralysed by Brexit dysfunction and a change of leadership. Add to that by using military force to seize an Iranian tanker off Gibraltar at the bidding of the United States, with whose policy on Iran we profoundly disagree, and you create inevitable problems, at a time […]
Unlike most people on this side of the Atlantic I do see some merit in Trump. I disagree on Iran, climate change, trade wars, abortion, indeed the whole neo-con agenda. But I do like the sentiment of accepting that not all countries want to be, or should be, clones of America, that foreign wars are […]