Back in 2012 and 2013, I shouted long and hard about how the West needed to militarily intervene in Syria. I figured if we didn’t, hundreds of thousands would die and five years later we’d still be seeing mass slaughter of human life inside of Syria. As someone who objected to the Iraq invasion, I […]
Archives for April 2018
For what is supposedly a ridiculous idea, a lot of people seem really put out by all this new centrist party gossip
News came out this week that a nascent centrist party is in the works, guided by 50 million quid and a rich chap named Simon Franks. Hands up: I’ve known all about this for several months now. In fact, I know of several such schemes, all of them uncoordinated with each other, all of them […]
Here’s one small ray of sunshine for Remainers
I have said again and again that Brexit is very, very, very likely to happen next year. Also, that far from the hard Brexit scenarios imagined by most, I think the UK government will fold on almost everything (as they have done up until now) and come to a deal that is essentially continued membership […]
Why inequality in Britain, particularly regional inequality, is almost certainly going to get worse – even if Corbyn becomes prime minister
While there are huge differences of opinion about what caused the country to vote for Brexit, almost everyone concedes that regional inequality and inequality in general had something to do with it. When you look at the regional disparity in terms of Remain and Leave votes, this becomes indisputable. Yet leaving the EU isn’t going […]
The centre of British politics has no great shinning hope. Or does it?
I had a Twitter conversation with a journalist about David Miliband earlier today. His point was that DM was nowhere near as great as centrists claim; that he speaks in a language not dissimilar to his brother, distant and overly wonkish. I joked that “he’s the best there is available. And he’s not even available”. […]