Boris Johnson: absentee landlord
June 30, 2020 5:23 pm Post a CommentToday was Boris’s big fightback speech. I didn’t bother tuning into it. I’m simply not interested in anything the man... View Article
Today was Boris’s big fightback speech. I didn’t bother tuning into it. I’m simply not interested in anything the man... View Article
Possibly the best indicator to date that we’re headed for a no-deal (or very limited deal) TranSend is the news... View Article
I’m told that it is possible to be interested in the latest Whitehall soap opera, the episode where Sir Mark... View Article
I don’t know where I got it from, but I had nurtured the impression that the Daily Express was a halfway decent... View Article
I dislike right wing populism. It goes after the easily manipulated and it feeds them a diet of poison. It’s... View Article
The bigotry of Priyamvada Gopal is not, as it superficially seems, racial in nature. It is an elitist belief that... View Article
Priyamvada Gopal is a Professor in the Faculty of English at Cambridge University and a Fellow of Churchill College. Her... View Article
We’ve got to the stage with TransEnd (not Brexit) that there’s nothing new to say. Everything that possibly could be... View Article
I thought my hit-rate might have dropped a bit, now that the interest in coronavirus is waning – but not... View Article
I went to Newby Hall church today. Traditionally it’s somewhere I go to recharge. It’s where mum and dad were... View Article
Brexit, I am told, was about restoration of sovereignty, the exact sovereignty we had before we went into the EEC.... View Article
There was one welcome piece of news yesterday – the daily coronavirus press conference is to be scrapped. It has... View Article
Expressed by number of days – including the leap year – four years seems an odd figure to be celebrating... View Article
Theresa May fumbled her way through her short premiership. She wasn’t much of a leader and she had a great... View Article
I hate Twitter. It rewards dreadful behaviour. It puts talentless know-nothings at the forefront of politics. There is also a... View Article
It’s rather quaint that the “progressive” Guardian should resort to such a old-fashioned phrase, headlining that the Tories fear Johnson has lost his... View Article