The Trouble with Brexit.
Some Spanish friends recently asked me to explain Brexit to them. It seemed to them like an incomprehensible fiasco and …
Tag Archives: Opinion
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 …
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 …
Should St Peter’s Seminary be Left to the Wilderness?
St Peter’s Seminary stands ruined in the woods outside Cardross. It is a two hour and twenty minute train ride …
A Closer Look at Mear One’s Mural.
“I sincerely regret that I did not look more closely at the image I was commenting on.” The Labour leader …
The Noctes Ambrosianae (No 22).
[SCENE: The BrewDog on the Cowgate, an apparently half-dismantled bar with bare brickwork on the walls and a stripped-away ceiling. …
