How long before King Dom swaps his customary beanie for a crown
We are now governed by a group of politicians so utterly clueless about policy and governance that they are desperate to hang on to the one man who unites them in their mediocrity.
We need a new roadmap out of lockdown
Right now we can’t even decide which way up the map is, let alone which direction we should head in.
Boris Johnson is a man revelling in his own ineptitude
The light at the end of the tunnel could well turn out to be an express train coming straight at us with Boris in the driving seat.
We should thank the Remainers for keeping the lid on economic disaster
While Westminster continues to look inward, events are unfolding elsewhere along roughly the lines the remain campaign predicted over two years ago. The much maligned ‘project fear’ has been easy to discount until recently with Brexiteers pointing to the fact that economic indicators have not fallen as much as was...
Let’s pull the plug on Brexit before it pulls the plug on us
It’s been a difficult few weeks for the Brexit adventure. The meaningful vote has turned into a merry-go-round of re-runs which leaves us wondering exactly which definition of meaningful is being applied. Amidst cries from the ERG that the People’s Vote lobby simply wants to have vote after vote until...
Those opposing a People’s Vote are the ones who don’t respect the will of the people
Two and half years on from the referendum and those sunlit uplands we were promised are starting to look more like a raging forest fire on the horizon. What was supposed to be the “easiest deal in history” has boiled down to a Prime Minister in absurd denial about a...
Stupidgate? What about the impending existential crisis that’s on the horizon
A few weeks ago we all witnessed Donald Trump using the US army as part of a shameless political stunt as the mid-term elections loomed. He sent thousands of troops to border areas claiming they were there to prevent a marauding ‘caravan’ of migrants breaching the US border. Most people...
This week’s revelations show just how broken our democracy is, and it’s not over yet
In an historic ruling on Tuesday, the government was deemed to be in contempt of Parliament for the first time in history for refusing to publish the full content of the Attorney General’s legal advice on Theresa May’s Brexit deal. At every stage of Brexit, May has kicked and screamed...
If Labour really wants to help the poorest in our society they need to stop Brexit
UN Rapporteur Philip Aston’s damning report into poverty in the UK was no surprise to those who had been keeping up with events. Anyone who hadn’t developed serious social myopia over the years last eight years of grinding austerity couldn’t fail to see the results of a deliberate government policy...