I know, I know – wishful thinking, right? And before some of you out there get your hopes up that what my headline refers to is a change of government, i.e. Keir Starmer might be prime minister this time next year, think again – the Tories aren’t being removed from power anytime soon. Yet Boris […]
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Another nationwide referendum? Find details here on the latest wacky caper British politics might be about to inflict on us all
And the shitshow rolls on. Today, we have an immigration policy unveiled by the government that makes no sense, even on its own terms. They want say they want to prioritise for skill not salary, so that we can get social workers and health care professionals from abroad as needed. Okay, great. Except that salary […]
Why the Andrew Sabisky incident was not a one-off – and why there will be plenty more where that came from
The Downing Street career of Andrew Sabisky was very short-lived. Much has been said already about his interesting angle on eugenics and marital sex, so I won’t rehash them here. The only thing I will say is that I find it odd that Dominic Cummings puts out a very long blog post requesting “weirdos and […]
Here is a breakdown of what is so incredibly terrible about Keir Starmer’s “ten pledges”
I really want to believe that Keir Starmer will be good. I want to believe that he will offer up the strong opposition that Corbyn has been so unable to provide. A couple of days ago I even tweeted: “There isn’t really a party or even portion of British politics I like at the moment. […]
Here’s a big problem facing the Tories no one is talking about
It’s been mostly good news for Boris Johnson on the Labour Party front since the general election. An unnecessarily elongated leadership contest resulting in Corbyn hanging around like a very bad smell has helped dampen any scrutiny of what the government has been up to. People talk about Boris employing dead cat strategies but it […]
The latest awful turn in the Labour leadership contest shows how much existential trouble the party is in
It is fair to say that the Labour leadership contest has been a total nightmare for the left of the party. Rebecca Long-Bailey was the one to beat after Corbyn announced after the general election that he would resign at some point in the sort of near future. She was going to have Momentum and […]
Why libertarianism doesn’t work and the progressive theory of history
Some people think I’m a libertarian. That’s because either libertarians think I’m one of them, or many on the left believe this to be my creed, which obviously makes me evil. But no, I’m not a libertarian. I used to describe myself as a classical liberal until that helpful term got hijacked by parts of […]
The western Left’s reaction to Buttigieg “winning” in Iowa tells us a lot about why the Right continues to be victorious
Mayor Pete hasn’t even won yet. Strangely, and in a major boost to Trump’s re-election hopes, the count in the Iowa Democrat presidential caucus continues on. This, however, has not stopped Bernie Sanders supporters across the west ganging up on Pete Buttigieg for daring to challenge their saviour in the Midwest. The whole thing is […]
On reflection, this could be the Liberal Democrats biggest problem
In the immediate wake of the general election in December, I wrote a long piece about what I thought had gone wrong for the Lib Dems in a campaign they entered with massive hopes, only to end up losing net one seat. Last week, I wrote three pieces detailing the only space I feel the […]
Are Labour destined to lose the next general election? There is way for them to win
Two things are remarked upon at the moment as being definite for the Labour Party: that Keir Starmer will be their next leader and they will lose the next general election. Yet for everything I have said in the past about the Tories being in power until 2035, I don’t think the latter needs to […]