Am I a Liberal? (or, a Book Review of Adam Gopnik’s A Thousand Small Sanities).
Am I a liberal? This might sound like a peculiar question because surely everybody is these days. Even most self-proclaimed …
Tag Archives: Democracy
Vertex Vortex: Jeremy Corbyn’s NHS Paranoia.
One would think that a cliché is untrue simply by virtue of being a cliché. According to the electioneering Labour …
Outsiders and “Rebels” in the Remainer Parliament.
Last week, Rory Stewart was named as our “Politician of the Year.” Needless to say, this did not occur in …
Philip Hammond: A Political Obituary.
With Boris Johnson in, and Theresa May out, it looks like the shaking-all-about might finally loosen one of the UK’s …
Theresa May: A Political Obituary.
When she was resigning outside 10 Downing Street on Friday, Theresa May choked up as she spoke of her “enormous …
The Further Humiliation of the European Parliament.
It is springtime for the Brexit Party, which has scrambled out of its eggshell and straight into flight, with a …
Letter from the Man in the Moon (4).
My dear Tychy. It has been over five years since I last sent you a letter but when I look …
The Voters are Waiting.
That the UK needs to hold a general election and that it needs a new Prime Minister are so overwhelmingly …
The Humiliation of the European Parliament.
You have to be very determined to find anything that is humorous to the bleak mixture of nightmare and tragedy …
A Solution to the Backstop.
In remarkable news from Venezuela, a recent dispute has left the country with two presidents. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, …
Profiling the Anti-Democrats.
It is fitting that an enterprise as squalid as the European Union should find in its rescuers the very scum …
The Trouble with Brexit.
Some Spanish friends recently asked me to explain Brexit to them. It seemed to them like an incomprehensible fiasco and …
Another Year of Theresa May?
Imagine that you are Prime Minister and that one day your staff appear in your office with some frightful news. …
Off the Cliff!
I have never jumped off a cliff before. In my heart of hearts, though, I am pretty sure that I …
Theresa May is Going Nowhere.
A pun plays on the two different meanings of a word or phrase. For example, this morning I woke up …
