The sudden upsurge in the attacks on Aleppo by joint Assad and Russian forces suggest that an end game plan is unfolding. One dare not think of the suffering beneath these bombardments nor of the humanitarian disaster it all represents. Yet there is a temptation to feel that any ending is better than waiting for […]
It is very welcome that at last the authorities are beginning a conversation about NHS consultants moonlighting in private practice. This blog has been calling for change for years. However we do not want another disputed contact nor a fudge which does not deal with this issue once and for all and without ambiguity. Thus […]
It is difficult to be sure what is happening, because there are gaps between what is said to be happening and what is truly happening. The accidental targeting (was it really an accident with all that technology?) of Syrian government forces and the killing of loads of Assad’s soldiers by the US led coalition will have […]
Trump was trailing in the polls. Now he is neck and neck with Hilary. Not only do the majority of voters not trust the first woman to run for President, but there is now a health issue and a monumental gaffe, attacking Trump’s supporters as worthless sink people or words to that effect. These mishaps certainly […]
Whatever the outcome of the leadership election, Labour is now by far the largest political party in Europe. To ignore that is to fail to see that times have changed. Thus Neil Kinnock’s cry that Labour is facing the biggest crisis of its history is wrong. The crisis is that of the whole political class. There […]
Diane James is a formidable communicator who has been the obvious successor to Farage since the Eastleigh by-election in 2013. She has authority and charisma and is unusually fluent in a political age in which professional politicians waffle and endlessly repeat themselves for fear of saying the wrong thing. This is important because today a political party […]
This blog is pleased this deal is going ahead, otherwise the lights will surely go out. But who would have guessed that the ultimate outcome of privatizing the power industry would be that it would end up owned by foreign governments? If anybody wants clear evidence of the implosion of Thatcherism, this is it. And the fact […]
It has become open season for the Tory party, according to its custom, to rubbish its former leader when it appoints a new one, especially if that leader became, as was once guaranteed, prime minister. Now things are a little different in that only two of the last five leaders of the Tory party made […]
This blog is appalled by these wild and unnecessary education reforms on several counts. The last lot have not bedded in. Faith schools should have no place in a multi-cultural society in the first place and to allow them to become closed shops on religious grounds is plain stupid at a time when we are trying to fight […]
It is difficult to imagine a bigger mishap for the Clinton campaign than a video of her fainting into the arms of secret service agents and being bundled away in a van. She then emerges a few hours later from her daughter’s flat saying she ‘overheated’ and now feels fine. A little later it is diagnosed […]