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Ukraine: slow-motion ceasefire

March 31, 2025 3:24 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

There is much chatter on the legacy media and elsewhere, conveying the frustration of Donald Trump over his inability to... View Article

Politics: sectarian interests

March 30, 2025 4:42 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

Quite rightly, there has been considerable indignation on social media following a post from Pakistani-heritage MP, Tahir Ali, telling us... View Article

Reform: not ready to be serious

March 29, 2025 2:56 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

After multiple articles about Reform and related matters, all of a sudden I’m bored by the subject. Being a political... View Article

Net-zero: the dustbin of history

March 28, 2025 3:28 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

Much has been made of the folly of allowing the manufacturers of a strategic product such as steel to be... View Article

Politics: fun time with Farage

March 27, 2025 2:58 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

Despite his many commitments, Farage does find time in his busy schedule to attend the Commons, seen yesterday (pictured) addressing... View Article

Reform: the vultures circle

March 26, 2025 3:50 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

In a moment of pure irony, we now have George Galloway criticising Farage, declaring that Reform’s choice of an “out-of-town... View Article

Reform: no longer an insurgency

March 25, 2025 3:10 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

If there is any validity at all in the predictions that we are on the pathway to a civil war... View Article

Politics: the road to civil war

March 24, 2025 2:56 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

A bloke called Ed Davey (whom I always want to call Daley, as in Arthur) has made a speech. Whether... View Article

Politics: foundations of sand

March 23, 2025 3:27 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

The latest opinion poll from Opinium, accessible from the company website, has Labour and Reform equal on 26 points with... View Article

Energy: Heathrow chaos

March 22, 2025 2:37 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

I think it was Florence Nightingale who coined the admonishment which has been absorbed into the ethical framework of nursing,... View Article

Ukraine: motley of the unwilling

March 21, 2025 3:29 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

Any hopes that Starmer had of his “peacekeeping” initiative for Ukraine yielding a “Falklands dividend” at the polls must surely... View Article

Politics: mass deportation

March 20, 2025 2:29 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

One really does worry about the state of the “official brain”, when one reads of France about to issue a... View Article

Politics: time-thief

March 19, 2025 2:59 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

Yesterday – apart from the minor detail of Liz Kendall announcing her welfare overhaul in the Commons – was to... View Article

Politics: lost ground

March 18, 2025 3:23 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

Despite my complaints yesterday about the lack of coherence in British politics, and the reporting thereof, this week looks to... View Article

Politics: a thin agenda

March 17, 2025 3:14 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

There is a peculiar sort of political hiatus at the moment. You can tell this when the newspaper headlines are... View Article

Politics: the next question

March 16, 2025 2:35 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

I wish I could get excited about the prospects for a ceasefire in Ukraine, but I think we’re still in... View Article

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