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 […]
A parent’s view of the first day back at school in the age of CoVid
My son is in Year One and so he could return to school today. We decided on balance that we would let him go back. During the walk to school he was neither nervous nor excited about returning; just strangely indifferent. His questions while we walked were the usual bag of six-year-old tricks: he wondered […]
The real problem Boris Johnson has with the Dominic Cummings affair
There has been a hell of a lot of takes on the Dominic Cummings affair already. I was hesitant to add my own for that reason. But this isn’t going away it seems, so here goes. I don’t want to get into the rights and wrongs of what Cummings did and whether he should be […]
My review of the Lib Dems’ “2019 Election Review Report”
We have known for months that the Lib Dems were doing an internal review into what went wrong with the 2019 general election campaign. As someone who has strong views on this subject, I read the report, released yesterday, with anticipation. I’ll start with this basic, overarching review: it is much, much better than I […]
Ten years on from the 2010 general election. What were the long term effects of the Lib Dems going into coalition with the Tories?
Yesterday was the ten year anniversary of the 2010 general election. It wasn’t an anniversary widely celebrated. Every corner of British politics had something to feel bitter about on the night. The Tories fell short of what many felt was their destined return to being the natural party of government; the Labour Party were chucked […]