Politics: opportunities
May 21, 2026 3:16 am Post a CommentWell, the day came and went, but the Yorkshire Water cowboys (known as M Group Water) didn’t turn up to... View Article
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Politics: hope dies last
May 11, 2026 3:25 am Post a CommentThe onrush of news, comment and speculation on Labour’s leadership crisis has reached such a level in the British legacy... View Article
Politics: end of the beginning
May 10, 2026 3:39 am Post a CommentIf anyone wanted a foretaste of how the Reform experiment could go horribly wrong, they could do no better than... View Article
Local elections: frustrations
May 9, 2026 2:43 am Post a CommentThere are several intensely frustrating elements about these elections just past, not least that the counting has not yet finished... View Article
Local elections: running blog
May 8, 2026 12:24 am Post a CommentFor reasons which have as much to do with the convenience of local council staff – and a marginal reduction... View Article
Local elections: not worth a vigil
May 7, 2026 4:05 am Post a CommentWhen it comes to the Iran situation, I cannot read it at all. Either president Trump is displaying Machiavellian cunning... View Article
Local elections: cutbacks, but not as you know them
May 6, 2026 3:27 am Post a CommentDespite having spent most of the daylight hours over the last five days (with a little help from my friends)... View Article
Politics: the Gaza effect
March 16, 2026 3:26 am Post a CommentWhen the United States launched Operation Enduring Freedom in October 2001– the attack on Afghanistan in the wake of 9/11... View Article
Politics: shambles at large
July 13, 2025 3:43 am Post a CommentI don’t want to make this another post about Reform as it’s already a subject which I find intensely wearying.... View Article
Politics: bloodbath
May 3, 2025 3:32 am Post a CommentThere can be no possibility of disputing the singular outcome of this series of elections just past. In numerical terms,... View Article
Politics: Runcorn et al
May 2, 2025 12:31 am Post a CommentSo much has been written, and continues to be produced, on the local elections and the Runcorn by-election – as... View Article
