As you know, I don’t agree with Owen Jones all that much. However, he wrote a piece the other day that was spot on entitled, “If Blairites want a future they must divorce themselves from Blair“. In the piece, Owen describes beautifully how a need to link themselves with Blair continually undermines the right of […]
Cameron v Farage – a review
The first thing to say about last night is that it could have been a lot worse for Vote Leave. What they would have wanted to avoid at the outset was Farage ending up saying something offensive that was quotable; they dodged that bullet. The UKIP leader was aggressive and nervous, however, and didn’t come […]
How Eurosceptic Tories have sacrificed everything for Brexit
We all agree that the EU referendum campaign has been unedifying – and we’re not even into the final two weeks of it yet, where the ugliness is bound to increase, particularly after the Leavers got a poll bounce off the immigration stuff. The squalid nature of the debate has come as no surprise to […]
It has been a bad week for #StrongerIn – what does that mean now?
When the Leave campaign began to focus all its guns on immigration, it looked to many of us as if they had given up. They couldn’t win the economic argument, so they shifted to betting everything on a last ditch effort built around a topic they had assiduously avoided to that point in order to […]
Jeremy Corbyn: The Outsider – a review
The following is a review of the Vice documentary, “Jeremy Corbyn: The Outsider”, which is a half hour long behind the scenes look at Corbyn and his team, directed and presented by Ben Ferguson. I know what you’re thinking: here’s my chance to revel in another Corbyn media misstep. But I genuinely watched the documentary […]
Reaction to Cameron’s EU “debate” says a lot about our political times
Last night, as those of you not watching England v Portugal might have picked up on, the prime minister went on Sky News to be grilled by Faisal Islam on why we should stay in the EU, followed by questions from the studio audience on the same topic. After it was all done, the commentariat […]
As if Donald Trump running for president wasn’t bad enough…….enter these idiots
Everyone is going to have to face the fact that the leader of the free world after January 20 of next year could very well be Donald Trump. I have done what most people do when faced with a terrible reality: I’ve tried to rationalise it. I’ve told myself that perhaps the GOP will just […]
How the Brexiteers are doing their side’s chances of winning in three weeks no good
I’ve read a few articles over the past week or so from members of the Right who are desperate to jump on any sign of life from the Leave camp as proof that the country still might vote to leave the European Union on June 23rd. Anytime a poll puts Leave in even the most […]
It scares me to think of how close to a horror show we really are sometimes
In a little over three weeks time, British voters will go to the polls with the possibility of the country leaving the European Union. Although we’ve become used to the referendum and all that has come with it, we should pause for a moment to reflect on how amazing it is that the plebiscite is […]
What a holiday in England in May tells me about the EU referendum result
We came to East Anglia on family business/pre-summer getaway idea. Escaping from London is always refreshing, obviously. It also reminds one of what a different world London exists in compared to the rest of England; as if during this EU referendum mud slinging epoch we needed that much reminding of this fact. I’ve written previously […]