Reading Time: 12 minutes I was asked the other day “what is wrong with the left?” or “where has the left gone wrong?” This is presumably in the context of the UK since this is quite a different political environment to the US, although there are obvious similarities. Let me answer this question in the context of previous general […]
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Disenfranchised and Disenchanted: Reflections on the UK Local Elections
Reading Time: 7 minutes Things are bleak in the UK. We are in a very desperate situation whereby we are still, after 11 years, being ruled by an incompetent, corrupt right-wing populist party with our own British Trump (the difference being that he can read Classics) fooling the British people with his buffoonery that he is somehow competent in […]
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A UK General Election: Hijacked
Reading Time: 4 minutes For those of you unaware of the situation in the UK just now, we have had a general election called in the wake of continued Brexit delay. PM Johnson killed his own Brexit bill in favour of a general election. My immediate response was this prediction: A general election is s terrible idea for the […]
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Manchester Bombing and the Political Context
Reading Time: 2 minutes As with so many, I am deeply angered by the attack from last night. I could offer all the usual condolences but it would all sound rather trite from me. So I’ll do what I usually do: offer some kind of analysis, this time political rather than theological. What will the fallout of this be? Well, […]
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Asking for… No, Demanding a Progressive Alliance
Reading Time: 8 minutes Yesterday, I wrote about the fallout from Brexit and the idea that, in a state of chaos and disarray, the ideologically possessed will take advantage and fulfill their decades’ old plans. Whatever you say about the good and bad of Brexit, it will enable free marketeers and those on the right of the Conservative Party […]
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I See You, David Miliband
Reading Time: 7 minutes The last few days have torn the UK apart. At a moment when the Tory party is riven in twain and ripe for pickings, Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party has imploded spectacularly. In the past 36 hours, 23 out of 31 shadow cabinet members have quit. It is in this context that I include the following. “I See […]
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Nick Clegg: Tories Trying to Americanise UK Politics to One Party State
Reading Time: 4 minutes Nick Clegg was leader of the Liberal Democrats who were in coalition with the right-wing Conservative government in the last Parliament, and was our Deputy Prime Minister. The Lib Dems got stung this last election to leave a straight Tory majority. Now Clegg is spilling the beans in the Independent and letting us know exactly […]
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Why the Daily Mail is a pathetically crap newspaper
Reading Time: 2 minutes Liz Kendall, running for Labour leadership in the UK, was rightfully indignant about the shiteness of the Daily Mail, Britain’s worst paper. Seriously, what century are we in? As the BBC reports: Labour leadership contender Liz Kendall has said it is “unbelievable” she was asked about her weight in an interview with the Mail on […]