The gutsiest of decisions
As Premier League football is cancelled today – as well nearly every other large gathering – the Government has surprised us all by not electing to instruct the populace to [...]
The end of party politics?
Possibly. Today, in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, the Chancellor announced so many billions - or was it was trillions - of pounds of infrastructure projects that one would [...]
The politics of coronavirus: are right-wingers coronavirus sceptics?
(For context, I’m writing on the day that the international stock markets collapsed, at a similar level to the 2008 decimation, all because of COVID-19. Italy has just quarantined the [...]
Corbyn, Trump and the Cult
Politically, Corbyn and Trump are of course diametrically opposite. (I backed Corbyn in the leadership election of 2015: I was swayed by his political history and the inevitable avalanche of [...]
The Genius that is Capitalism
Like it or not, capitalism is genius. And all geniuses are flawed. In my favourite - though rarely-referenced - tranche of Marxism, Marx declares that, "Crime produces locks, jails, police, [...]
The Lords Resistance Army
Let me entertain you with an alcohol-caused, name-dropping anecdote. A few months ago, at the Labour Regional Conference in Leeds, at an hour well past Anne Widdecombe's bedtime, I was [...]
Wikileaks
I find the recent Wikileaks saga most conflicting. The data dump will have the effect that diplomats will rarely write candidly for fear that their words will end up in [...]
