Over the weekend, the official Black Lives Matter UK twitter account put out a tweet that read: “As Israel moves forward with the annexation of the West Bank, and mainstream British politics is gagged of the right to critique Zionism, and Israel’s settler colonial pursuits, we loudly and clearly stand beside our Palestinian comrades. FREE […]
Archives for June 2020
Why the idea that Labour cannot win a majority at the next general election is the biggest fallacy in modern British politics
One of the trends from the last five years of politics is that a truism gets established amongst the cognoscenti, which then spreads to the next level of those interested enough in politics to pay attention to at least some of its subtleties – and then the truism gets demolished by reality. “Corbyn could never […]
There is one way and one way only that Layla Moran’s plans for the Lib Dems will work. It is unlikely
This weekend, Layla Moran has set out her stall in terms of what her leadership of the Lib Dems would look like. Unsurprisingly, Layla plans to move the party to the left. Possibly, far to the left. “I will be more radical than Labour and I will be unapologetic about that,” she said. She ruled […]
Here’s what was wrong with the way Remainers campaigned post-June 2016
We are experiencing the eye of the storm in terms of the culture war in this country at the moment. At least I hope we are – please tell me it doesn’t get worse from here somehow. Remainers like to say that Brexit caused this; that it was the vote to Leave the European Union […]
Why I think this man will be the next prime minister – before the next general election
I’ve written a few times already about why I believe Boris Johnson’s premiership will be a brief one. I will now outline a scenario for you involving him being deposed and replaced with Jeremy Hunt, all within roughly the next year or so. For various reasons, this process could take a little longer; this is […]
Why people are writing off Nigel Farage too early, yet again
I feel like I’ve written something a lot this article many times before. I probably have. Either way, it doesn’t make what I’m about to write any less true. In the wake of Nigel Farage no longer doing his LBC gig and his subsequent announcement that he is relaunching the Brexit Party, possibly under the […]
How Boris Johnson has been played into a brutal corner that he might not escape from this time
His premiership has gone so differently than I’m sure Boris Johnson imagined. Some of that is fair enough; he couldn’t have foreseen a pandemic. A lot of what has transpired was less difficult to predict, however. In February, which seems like a very long time ago now, I wrote an article on here about how […]
In order to end the culture war, we need to understand what each side values in a real sense
This week, Britain has seemed, at least to me, to be more divided than I can ever remember it. Far from the culture war cooling, it seems to be getting worse. The particular flare point was the BLM protests in central London and in several other British cities, with one incident in particular dividing people: […]
How the Left let the kids take over, with disastrous consequences
The day after protests in London took place, several young people came to clean off the graffiti that had been put onto the Earl Haig memorial. While they were doing this, a young woman approached and berated them. “Couldn’t even wait a day. Not one day, because of their precious memorial,” she said to them […]
Why the Peter Hitchens YouTube incident highlights the importance of free speech
During the Coronavirus crisis, YouTube have worked to try and filter out what they deem as disinformation on CoVid. The first big example of this was removing David Icke’s channel from the site after he’d done a few videos on the virus from his own unique standpoint. For some of you, this might be easily […]