Boring Snoring Boris Johnson.
Why has a Boris Johnson government turned out to be so colossally boring? It might be somewhat unsettling for us …
Tag Archives: Democracy
“And The Glitter Is Gone”: On How to Leave the EU with Emotional Intelligence.
The sun is setting over New York. We are on a roof, with the horizon at waist level, and with …
Book Review: Mindf*ck.
Christopher Wylie is this bratty young Canadian guy with the pink lid who had “blown the whistle” on the Vote …
Where You Belong (a review of GE2019).
‘You are pitiful, isolated individuals! You are bankrupts. Your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on—into …
Labour’s “It’s Time For Real Change” is a post-Brexit manifesto.
Brexiteers, or anybody with any lingering attachment to democracy, are likely to be offended by the Labour party’s latest Brexit …
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 …
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, …
