EU Democracy in Crisis!
Jean-Claude Juncker (President of the European commission): This European parliament is ridiculous! Really ridiculous! I would like to welcome those …
Tag Archives: Democracy
GE2017 or GE2017s?
The historical significance of GE2017 lies not only in its confirmation of the 2014 Scottish independence referendum but in its …
Him or Her?
So should it be him or her? The authentic, genuine Jeremy Corbyn, so different to other politicians, who has lately …
Hard Cheese on Tony (Benn).
One of the more interesting implications of the forthcoming general election, at least for people who are interested in these …
The Effrontery of Gibraltar.
Why don’t we just give the bloody thing back? If you ever want to get to the bottom of the …
Brexit and My Favourite New Statistic.
67%! This is now my favourite statistic. When I first encountered it – yesterday in the latest Scottish Social Attitudes …
Trashing Tunisia.
Whenever history is written, some voices are carefully remembered and others are not fished back up from out of the …
Making a Success of It.
International finance is no doubt presently wondering whether Theresa May, the stateswoman who will save UK capitalism by negotiating fiendish …
Trump Towers.
The contagion was spreading among the multitude, when, all at once, it seized upon Robin, and he sent forth a …
Brexit: We Should Only “Negotiate” With Elected Politicians.
“We do not negotiate taking back control,” the MP John Redwood sniffed yesterday in an article for Comment Central, “that …
Democracy on Trial Postscript: Focus on Turkey.
And so, with officers being wrenched from the turrets of their tanks and most men in uniform with their hands …
A Tale of Middle-Class Hysteria.
“Nigel Farage has told a session of the European Parliament that “the little people” had rejected “big politics” in order …
Nicola Sturgeon: The Politics of Hate.
Following the Brexit vote, hatred has been unleashed across the nation. Demagoguery is currently at its most nimble, in seeking …
How to tell if you are still really on the Left after the Brexit vote.
Yesterday was not so much the “dawn” of democracy as the lights flickering back on after a lengthy and thoroughly …
