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 …
Tag Archives: Opinion
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 …
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 …
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. …
The Noctes Ambrosianae (No 23).
[SCENE: The outside seating at the 56 North gin bar. Tychy, James, Tori, Pablo and Hutu the Clown are sitting …
Sick Buildings Syndrome.
The ruins of the Glasgow School of Art are yet to give up their secrets. A vast fire ate through …
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 …
Poetry Review: A Royal Wedding Poem by Carol Ann Duffy.
How can she stand it – how can anybody stand it – this prostitution of English literature in front of …
