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 […]
Clearly Liam Fox’s comments about British Business have caused a big stir. It was a recording of a private meeting, but since everybody carries a recording device in the from of a smart phone, there is today no such thing as a meeting which is private. So Fox knew his remarks would escape the room. Is […]
When you consider the list of urgent priorities facing this government, it is hard for anyone to agree that reintroducing grammar schools is one of them. Which is why almost nobody has. Now that May has got this off her chest we can only hope, once again, that she will get on with her day […]
There is a very big in-tray on this government’s desk. Not only do we have increasing irritation with lack of any coherent direction over Brexit, but there are problems with health, the railways, housing, deficits of several kinds, youth employment and many others which impact upon ordinary people’s daily lives in a negative way. With […]