I don’t want to pick on Owen Jones again, but I’m forced to. Yesterday he penned an article entitled “First Corbyn, now Sanders: how young voters’ despair is fuelling movements on the left” which pretty much did what it says on the tin. The basic idea is that the rise of Corbyn and Sanders can […]
Archives for February 2016
Where are all the female Eurosceptics?
There was an item on the BBC News earlier this week about the EU referendum campaigns. They did a piece from the offices of Vote Leave and one thing stood out beyond anything else: everyone you saw, in every single shot, was a man. In fact, all the blokes seemed to fit a similar pattern […]
Is it just possible the Tories want Zac Goldsmith to lose in London?
Yesterday witnessed a London mayoral hustings in which all of the conceivable candidates for said position spoke. Those who were there and I consider reliable witnesses claim that Sadiq really won the night, with Zac being a little flat (and predictably, Galloway getting way too much floor time as he refused to shut up). There […]
So Cameron has announced his EU renegotiation deal. Now what?
Yesterday, in a factory in Wiltshire, David Cameron announced that he had agreed a deal with Donald Tusk (that needs to be ratified at the Brussels summit February 18 and 19th I hasten to add) essentially laying out what the British public will be voting for if they mark “Remain” on their ballot papers come […]
Is it just me or was “Firefly” really not very good?
I realise two things. One, reviewing a TV show that came out in 2002 definitely puts me a decade and a half out of the loop. Two, give reverence for this show is on a monumental level for many sci-fi fans, I’m about to make some enemies here. I finally watched the first episode of “Firefly” […]
Cameron v Farage debate during the EU referendum short campaign? It might go something like this
At some point relatively soon, we will probably know the date the referendum that will determine whether or not the United Kingdom remains a member of the European Union. It will probably be June – it will probably be June 23rd. If that’s the case, will we see some sort of “EU debate” on TV, […]