So you thought thirteen years of Tory rule had turned the UK into a banana republic ? Think again. We don’t produce bananas and we’re more certainly not a republic, more’s the pity. In a country where some people in work cannot afford to buy actual bananas and are reliant on food banks, where most […]
‘At least Liz the Lettuce waited until she had been elected party leader before she pressed the self-destruct button’. I’m currently working in Australia, but even here we felt the shockwaves of Nicola Sturgeon’s departure. As we enter the post-Sturgeon era of Scottish politics, many are still in the dark as to why the First […]
A week is a long time in politics, as the old cliche goes. We never know what could be just around the corner, and I have very bad form in that regard. My previous two columns in July and September have failed to predict Boris Johnson’s resignation and the death of the Queen. Thankfully, Liz […]
By the time this column goes to press, the UK will have a new Prime Minister. Whoever that person may be, they will have been elected under a system which makes China look like a democracy. As we all know, the only people with a say in choosing the next leader of the Government will […]
When issued with a fixed penalty by the Metropolitan Police for breaking Covid rules, Boris Johnson said he was not going to resign and that it was important to move on and do the job the British people wanted him to do – which was tackling the cost-of-living crisis, which he started in the first […]
Two very strange thoughts have been running through my mind since the start of March. One is: ‘Thank goodness for the common sense of American people’. The second, somewhat to my own surprise is: ‘I really hope Boris Johnson stays in his job, at least until August’. Let me explain. Point One. We can all […]
Who knows what the fight the UK will have started in Europe by the time this appears in print. After noising up the Irish and trying to stir things up with France, who knows which country the UK will have decided to take on next. Furthermore, as the country lurches from crisis to crisis like […]
So, it would appear that Boris Johnson may have finally got his moment to be compared to Churchill. As the withdrawal from Afghanistan resembles Dunkirk without boats, the PM had to face an emergency session in Parliament, where he was roasted by Theresa May for his shambolic reaction to events. Phrases like ‘make a sentence […]
The problem with having to file copy over a week in advance of publication day means that sometimes what I write in this column can be superseded by events. So, I have to choose between voicing outdated opinions or making wild speculative predictions. Or both. So, I’m going with the wildly speculative this time around. […]
As spring arrives and we slowly emerge from the winter lockdown, we appear to have entered some bizarre parallel universe where Dominic Cummings preaches about honesty, integrity and ethics; where Alex Salmond pledges to ‘put women front and centre’ of his party’s policies; and where Gordon Brown warns ‘Project Fear won’t work’. I suppose it’s […]