This isn’t about whether you support America’s airstrikes on Syria or not. I personally find the need to protest every time America does something militarily, yet turn a total blind eye to when Russia does the same hypocritical and morally questionable at the very least. But I do not wish to get hung up on […]
I don’t understand why Mark Reckless is staying in politics
I recall vividly the first day of the 2014 Tory conference in Birmingham. As an aside, every Tory conference for the last 87 years has been in either Brum or Manchester. Anyhow, what was memorable about the first day of 2014 Tory conference was that Mark Reckless, until earlier that very morning a Conservative MP, […]
What the Island of Brac in Croatia taught me about EU regulation
Yesterday afternoon, my family and I took a trip to a beach called Zlatni Rat on the island of Brac. It’s a Croatian island, an hour’s ferry journey from Split. Anyhow, since we’d come one certain wway from where we’re staying on the north side of the island to get to the beach, we figured […]
Spain saying they won’t block an independent Scotland from joining the EU is monumental
I’m abroad at present – Croatia – so forgive me if Jonathan Freedland or somebody has already written a comment piece saying what I’m about to say. But that stuff Spain has said about not vetoing an independent Scotland from joining the EU is bigger news than it appears to be being treated in the […]
How will the Lib Dems do in the May local elections? And what does a good day for them look like?
On May 4th, the electorate go to the polls in 27 non-metropolitan county councils in England, 7 unitary councils in England, one metropolitan borough in England (Doncaster), while every local seat in Scotland and Wales will be contested. Given how many local seats the Lib Dems lost in the last parliament, combined with Lib Dem excitement around local […]
Why the leftie Brexiteers are so odd – and so at odds with themselves
Arthur Scargill, the old trade union boss, unexpectedly popped up in the news again yesterday. The reason being, he had given a pro-Brexit speech in which he said that leaving the EU would allow Britain to re-open the coal mines. “We were not allowed to subsidise pits under EU rules unless we were closing them […]
Why the Eurosceptics should oddly be an inspiration for progressives
So today is the day. Article 50 and all that. We knew it was coming, and here it is. What I’d like to take time to talk about will seem odd to some of you. But here goes: what the Eurosceptics have achieved should inspire today’s progressives in one particular way, which is this: regardless […]
Here’s the saddest thing about Corbyn’s leadership of Labour
There are many things to lament in regards to Corbyn’s stewardship of Labour. The destruction of the possibility that any party other than the Conservatives will be able to win a general election for the next generation, for instance, and all of the problems that brings (for the Conservatives as much as anyone else). But this […]
Len McCluskey is supposedly giving Corbyn 15 months to turn things around. So what happens in summer 2018 then?
Over the weekend Len McCluskey gave an interview on Pienaar in which he talked a lot about the importance of workers’ rights being protected during and after the Brexit process, the need for stronger unions in order to battle coming mechanisation, how key it is to return Britain to full employment…..I’m kidding, of course, he actually complained […]
Keir Starmer sets out “tough new conditions” for Labour to back Brexit deal – please, give me a break
Easily the most annoying thing about Corbyn’s time as Labour leader (and that is saying something) has been the moves to look like the party won’t block Brexit for any reason while simultaneously vowing to be tough on May’s Brexit plans. It has meant that nothing Labour has said or done since June 23rd of […]