Politics: a failing institution
April 25, 2024 2:26 am Post a CommentBefore our very eyes, yesterday, we saw parliament demonstrate its abject failure to exercise its hard-earned powers – and the... View Article
Before our very eyes, yesterday, we saw parliament demonstrate its abject failure to exercise its hard-earned powers – and the... View Article
Ostensibly, this is a post about defence but, actually, it isn’t. This is politics at its worst – the news... View Article
So, it’s back to work after the riotous 20-year anniversary celebrations (not) and, with a busy news agenda, there’s a... View Article
Unlike a jail sentence, there is no time off for good behaviour when publishing a blog. The sentence is indeterminate,... View Article
Significantly – in my mind at least – the main point of my blogpost yesterday seems to have been missed... View Article
As an indication of how the social media have taken over much of the role of front-line social commentary, one... View Article
The BBC usually puts up facsimiles of the major newspaper front pages by just after one in the morning –... View Article
One wonders whether Sunak is aware of the parlous state in which Ukraine finds itself. But it seems hard to... View Article
In a very small way, the forces of rationality seem to have secured a small victories lately, firstly with Victoria... View Article
Forced to recognise the anomalous levels of support as between Israel and Ukraine, Cameron found himself struggling to explain why... View Article
I am not the only one, by a long chalk, to wonder why it is that the US – with... View Article
The curse of the Middle East has struck again, with the Iranian drone and missile bombardment of Israel. Although, at... View Article
Provisionally, for the Labour Party, Friday was supposed to be dedicated to defence, when Starmer was to set out his... View Article
Ever since the ECHR rulings on climate change – with the judgements delivered on 9 April, I had mentally reserved... View Article
I haven’t read the whole of final report of the “Independent review of gender identity services for children and young... View Article
Some say that propaganda in warfare came of age in WWII under the Nazis when Joseph Goebbels took complete control... View Article