There are many people inside and outside Turkey who worry about the drift away from the secular state, which grew out of the ashes of the Ottoman Empire, and which is now threatened by the Islamist leanings of the current Turkish government. However Turkey is a democracy, has chosen its government in fair elections and to attempt to […]
It is difficult the grasp the scale of the horror in Nice. Nearly ninety dead, many of them children from a lorry driven at the celebrating crowd for two kilometers. It is impossible to imagine the fear, the suffering and the loss of life, let alone the shattered lives of the bereaved. The Prime Minister was right […]
This is a completely new government. And it is being put together with forensic precision and an eye for competence. One by one the hot air balloons and meddlers are returning to the back benches. This is good news for the country, which desperately needs a government of authority and mission. A mission a good […]
Mrs. May is tough and determined. Time will tell if she is right or wrong. That is what politics is about. What we do know thus far is that her reputation for caution appears to be overstated. The summary firing of Osborne and the appointment of Boris as Foreign Secretary are hardly the work of […]
I have just heard the most left of centre speech of any incoming Tory Prime Minister since Harold Macmillan. The make up of the Cabinet will tell us whether there is substance behind the words. I strongly suspect there is. This will indeed be an administration with a difference.
By comparison to the Tories, Labour is a rough house, but it is much more open, a good deal more emotional, far less politically astute and very much more driven by a sense of mission. Mission trumps ambition. So when things leave the rails, the pile up is a big one and it takes a […]
As the referendum campaign advanced there were four Tory leadership contenders striding the field of battle. Johnson, Gove, the up and coming Leadsom and Cameron. All are gone or going. The two giants among them were Boris and Cameron. Everyone thought that Boris would soon be Prime Minister especially camp Boris. First Cameron went down, followed by Johnson the mega […]
It looks to any casual observer as if the Leadsom campaign for the Tory leadership has gone up in smoke. It is certainly on fire, but fires can be put out before too much damage is done, if there are other powerful forces in play. And there is one force which knows no party boundary, nor is […]
Turn Left To Power is an explosive dissertation in book form offering a fundamental redirection for Labour’s return to power, with bold ideas for a new economic and social settlement, including economic and taxation reform, restoration of responsibility in government and a renewal of democracy. Full of detailed information, hard facts and the results of thorough research and […]
New Labour, which remains dominant only in the Parliamentary Labour Party, is the stubborn element of this tragic drama. There is talk of a split. In fact the split happened a long time ago, but the dominance of the PLP concealed it. Out in the country the working class vote either stayed at home or […]