The hour after the May departure
19.05 Day 0, outside 10 Downing Street. “Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. I have a brief prepared statement and then I will have time for some questions. This evening, as you’ve just heard,...
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Nigel Farage is a #FritBrit. Too scared to debate with Heidi AllenClick To Tweet So, it seems Nigel “Blame the BBC” has declined to debate with Change UK’s Heidi Allen MP. Surely the godfather of...
View ArticleTrump should be finished; Johnson has about a month to get a grip.
A casual observer could be forgiven for mistaking the current state of British and American politics as a little mismanaged at the moment. With two unconventional leaders, one might be surprised that...
View ArticleSir Keir begins.
Sir Keir Starmer’s speech, in front of a brick wall and window in Doncaster this morning, was the first step in painting a picture of how the Labour Party will be like with him as leader. It was...
View ArticleThe Fuzz and the Grimes
The Metropolitan investigation into Darren Grimes’ David Starkey interview should not be controversial, primarily because the investigation should have consisted of some sort of reasoning such as: Q:...
View ArticleA crucially stupid decision by a non-essential politician
The decision by the First Minister for Wales Mark Drakeford, that only ‘essential’ items should be sold in Wales during its current COVID lockdown is the single most stupidly anti-freedom decision...
View ArticleAll in this together. Or ‘fun with anagrams’
It is clearly the case that, despite the best hopes and dreams of members of the Conservative Party, Boris Johnson has not been forged, either via the hammering of COVID nor the white heat of Brexit,...
View ArticleJog on, wrong’un.
When, aged 15, I joined the Conservative Party in the library of my school, I was aware of the reputation that would gather to me. I was boring, toryboy, I would be forever alone, my politics was more...
View ArticleThe Future of Unionism
So, this weekend, suitably be-anoraked Irish Nationalists gathered in the Three Arena, Dublin, to begin what they hope will be open dialogue in preparation for an inevitable action towards the...
View ArticleA modest proposal
Dear Conservative Parliamentary Party Collective Consciousness, Back when I was a callow youth in 1995, the thing which drew me to the Conservative Party was that we were essentially boring, grey...
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