Teetering
I suspect that we are now seeing two “debates” about Scotland. Within Scotland there is a vigorous debate going on with much soul-searching between: a self-confident, self-contained “Yes” campaign that...
View ArticleDouble-speak on Youth Unemployment
The Prime Minister speaking on the Andrew Marr programme (28 September 2014 BBC1) announced: Unemployed 18 to 21-year olds would be given six months to find work or training. Their jobseeker’s...
View ArticleBigger than the BBC
The BBC seems damned if it does and damned if it doesn’t. Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson initiated the BBC investigation which prompted his suspension, after he informed BBC bosses of the alleged...
View ArticleEnd of Term Report: Conservatives
The Conservatives did not win a majority at the last election. So how have they done in the last five years? How do we measure what they have done? On one hand we can measure “how well they have...
View ArticleMigrant Miopia; Cuts and Fences
… the Home Office said support could end for failed asylum-seekers, to discourage illegal migration. Bolstered security measures planned for around the French end of the Channel Tunnel, which include...
View ArticleCameron’s baseball bat vs Howe’s broken cricket bat
Using a cricket metaphor to describe Mrs Thatcher’s attitude to British negotiations in Europe, he [Geoffrey Howe] said: “It is rather like sending your opening batsmen to the crease, only to find …...
View ArticleLaziness and Populism
There is a strand in British politics – probably much approved of by the Pub Landlord – that says that by resorting to simplistic slogans, that have just a germ of truth to them, you can attract much...
View ArticleWhat If: (best move for #Remain)?
Today we are told that Cameron and Osborne are for a while stepping back from the Remain campaign: Labour may be taking centre stage today, but Chancellor George Osborne has still been on the campaign...
View ArticleEnemies of the People
The country is split; horribly horribly split. This week’s High Court judgement has opened the split even more. But dig deeper and it is not a Brexit vs Anti-Brexit split. It is a deeper and more...
View ArticleAny leadership to prevent this Brexit?
There was a Labour Party public meeting held this week-end in this Tory safe seat. Whilst in some ways it is heartening to see any political activity in the constituency that is well outside the...
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