I stopped punching the Corbyn bag a little while back. Part of that came down to getting bored of saying the same thing in different ways; part of it was that the EU speech gave me some hope for the guy. Not much, I stress – but at least enough to give the bloke a […]
What to make of Theresa May’s EU speech? A review
The Home Secretary made her first intervention into the EU referendum debate yesterday with a sizable speech on the topic. Given many had assumed she would be on the Leave side of the debate a few months back, the substance of the speech made for an interesting listen. I’ll start with the positives. I liked […]
I don’t think I can handle another eight and a half weeks of EU referenduminess
I recall vividly the day a couple of weeks ago when the designations for the official campaigns of the EU referendum were announced. As expected, Stronger In and Vote Leave got the respective nods. Then Arron Banks said he was going to contest the decision – meaning the referendum might have to be postponed until October […]
Why the Brexiteers are wrong about Obama and the “back of the queue”
Needless to say, those who favour Britain leaving the EU were none too pleased with the president of the United States’ speech on the subject this Friday gone. Their reactions ranged from the somewhat sensible (the fact that America would never sign itself up to something like the European Union) to the downright barmy (Boris […]
Could this person – not Trump, Hillary or Cruz – become the next president of the United States?
For those of you watching the US presidential primaries with horror/interest, here’s a question: why is John Kasich hanging in there still? He has almost 700 fewer delegates than Donald Trump, with only 733 of them left to play for in total. He’s almost out of mathematical contention – and he’s obviously out of any […]
Prince leaves this plane: a retrospective
The artist born Prince Rogers Nelson died yesterday evening in his Minneapolis studio, at the age of 57, for as yet unknown causes. I would ideally like to add here that it is rare that musical figures of his stature die, but 2016 seems to be a year very much filled with such passings – and […]
Marine Le Pen and the EU referendum – please let this happen
Word reaches us that Marine Le Pen, the leader of France’s far-right Front National and daughter of infamous quasi-fascist Jean-Marie Le Pen (who also led FN), is thinking of coming to London to campaign for Brexit. A few outlets have run the story, including The Guardian which included this understatement of epic proportions in their […]
Leave.EU is a wonderful gift to pro-Europeans
As I have said many times before, I cannot wait until June 23rd comes and goes and we can (hopefully, so long as we vote to Remain) stop talking about the EU every second of the day in increasingly inane ways. The one thing I will really miss – and I mean this in all sincerity – […]
The problem for the Left is that it is stuck between two opposing views of the world
There’s been an interesting debate regarding the so-called “citizen’s income” on both the Left and Right in Britain over the last couple of years. The idea has gained more traction on the Left, with the Greens making it official policy (sort of) in the run in to the last general election. But the reasons many […]
Why has David Davis said this?
What is it that the man who came second to David Cameron last time there was a leadership contest within the Conservative Party has said that I question? First of all to preface, he mentioned that if the country votes to Leave on June 23rd, David Cameron should remain as prime minister. So far, so […]