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 …
Tag Archives: Democracy
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 …
Power to the People in Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party.
Last week, Tony Blair was interviewed on the BBC podcast “Political Thinking.” The interview was more of an exercise in …
Can a second referendum ever be fair?
I always thought that a referendum would be the unfairest possible way of measuring popular support for the European Union. …
A Bad Week for the EU.
It is a bad week for the European Union whenever people notice it and begin to think about it. This …
Time to Crash Out!
Summer is here, the city is fresher than it’s felt in a long time, and it’s time to crash out! …
The Windrush Scandal: British Citizenship Should Become Unconditional After Three Years.
Callooh! Callay! for the UK’s Antillean migrants. The Home Secretary Amber Rudd promised this afternoon that their applications for British …
Book Review: Go, Went, Gone.
[The following contains spoilers.] Jenny Erpenbeck‘s Go, Went, Gone was first published in 2015 and it appeared in English, translated …
