In Cummings We Believe
This evening, Cummings enjoyed a one-hour prime-time slot, interviewed by his chum, Laura Kuenessberg. In this blog, I’ll set out Cummings’ broad thesis. The party system is flawed. As Cummings [...]
Goodbye to the Lib Dems
This week, I resigned from the Liberal Democrats as my membership expired. It’s hard to dislike a Lib Dem: they are good people. Usually ideology-free, the Lib Dems wants the [...]
Perfect is the Enemy of Good: Part One
So said Voltaire, with similar versions from Shakespeare and Confucius. Throughout lockdown, the lack of schooling for my kids – and to millions of other children less fortunate than mine [...]
Return of the Lawyer Jokes
With Black Lives Matter rightly front and centre of debate, yesterday Keir Starmer commenced his PMQs by referring to the Lammy Report and the Windrush Report, highlighting what he said [...]
Double Praise for Boris Johnson
Parking Covid for a moment, frequently people on ‘the left’ chastise Reckless Boris (RB) – as I like to call him but not for the rest of this blog - [...]
Liar-In-Chief
To accuse anyone of lying one must be sure of the facts, even if that person is Donald Trump. Of course, no thinking person could conclude that the President is [...]
George Floyd and Donald Trump
For posterity, I am posting the video which gruesomely shows the murder of George Floyd here. It needs to be seen to be believed. For posterity, I am posting a [...]
PMQs on 3 June 2020
In PMQs today, Reckless Boris (RB) was in defensive mood, despatching Starmer’s attacks with consummate ease. The PM – king of winging it – knew what was coming because Starmer’s [...]
Blairism and Borism
Saddo political anorak that I am, on what was a yet another gorgeous day (has the weather ever been better?), I cantered through – in awe – A Journey by [...]
Action
I’m a relatively new member of the Liberal Democrats. I was a Tory at school, because my parents were Tories. University broadened my mind: as Jordan Peterson states, conservatism is [...]
