Some might immediately dispute my headline. “We got six million people to sign a revoke petition! There were several marches through London attended by hundreds of thousands of people!” All right, but Brexit happened. Sort of. It’s hard not to see a pretty hardcore version of a real Brexit taking place at the end of […]
Archives for April 2020
Has the public really lost all faith in the mainstream media? Here’s a theory
Sky News commissioned a YouGov poll late last week around several topics, one of which was trust in the media. It came back with very low figures in favour of the mainstream media: 72% of respondents said they did not trust newspapers, 17% said they do. 64% said they do not trust television news, 24% […]
Why Ed Davey and the Lib Dems’ Ramadan fasting stunt is such a bad idea
For those of you not following the minutiae of the Liberal Democrat party at the moment, which I imagine is almost all of you, Ed Davey is leading many members of his brigade, MPs and councillors, to fast for Ramadan. Your first question here should be: why exactly? Has Ed Davey and many other Lib […]
Why liberals should stop being condescending about St George’s Day
Today, as most of you reading will already know, is St George’s Day. It is England’s national day. Each year on this date, several things occur. One is that a certain portion of the population gets out their crosses of St George and revels in their idea of Englishness. This is sometimes benign, it is […]
This will be the biggest impediment to Labour winning another election – and it’s not the Corbyn gang’s antics
The one thing that has managed to break up the news cycle a little bit over the past couple of weeks, away from CoVid and the government’s handling of it, has been the latest shitstorm within the Labour Party. The departing Corbynistas have burnt the crops behind them like fleeing Russian peasants, trying to send […]
Here’s why Keir Starmer will never be accepted by the far left and what that means for Labour’s immediate future
Starmer ran on a platform of uniting all factions of the Labour Party. This was an admirable one in many respects – that it was also the most politically advantageous strategy to have adopted, we will leave to one side for now. Yet as soon as he was leader, the backstabbing by the far left […]
Why free speech is under threat in a post-Covid world in ways we haven’t begun to seriously consider yet
Free speech as an issue has had a hard time of it over the last ten years. A large section of the left has given up on the concept of it completely. That this has happened at the same time as the rise of the “I’m literally a communist” meme is not coincidental. The portion […]
No, Labour did not almost win the 2017 general election. Here’s a breakdown of why – and why this is important
Corbynistas now cling with desperation to the idea that the Labour Party almost won the 2017 general election. It is all they have left, I suppose, the betrayal myth; we came so close and if it hadn’t been for internal saboteurs, we’d have got over the line. Look how close we got anyhow! Except in […]
Starmer and Labour will have to have an answer to the debt problem that is inevitably ahead
The right are clearly a little rattled by having a competent leader of the Labour Party in situ once again. It has been a long time since this wan’t the case and they got used to living in a world where the head of the opposition was an open joke. Yet despite all that, Labour […]
What Keir Starmer becoming Labour leader tells us about party politics in the current era
A well-known and liked journalist posted something along the lines of “Keir Starmer becoming leader of Labour proves I’m right in 1,000 words – off you go” on Twitter this week. The reason I bring this up is because I am about to do the exact opposite; Starmer becoming leader proves most of the things […]