Politics: the ultimate betrayal
July 12, 2026 3:24 am Post a CommentIt may be indelicate to say so, but the murder of Ann Widdecombe has proved rather convenient for Mr Farage,... View Article
Tag Archive: civil war
Politics: uncertain times
June 12, 2026 3:03 am Post a CommentI’m not going to get excited about the resignation of John Healey as defence secretary, even if he has been... View Article
Politics: linguistic policing
December 23, 2025 3:39 am Post a CommentIn my piece yesterday, which homed in – amongst other things – on Dr Mary-Ann Stephenson’s comments on “demonising migrants”... View Article
Politics: fault lines
September 5, 2025 3:09 am Post a CommentI’m already bored with the Rayner saga as, I suspect, are most normal people in this nation of ours. Whether... View Article
Politics: sign or outlier?
July 15, 2025 2:54 am Post a CommentThe Spanish drama continues with the news of a fire that destroyed the new mosque in the Barcelona town of... View Article
Politics: the wrecking ball
July 12, 2025 3:14 am Post a CommentLooking around at the broader news agenda, as I often do when seeking out items for the next blogpost, I... View Article
Politics: the slope to perdition
July 11, 2025 3:05 am Post a CommentI am at a total loss as to why Starmer is presenting an asylum deal with Macron – assuming it... View Article
Politics: the road to civil war
March 24, 2025 2:56 am Post a CommentA bloke called Ed Davey (whom I always want to call Daley, as in Arthur) has made a speech. Whether... View Article
Politics: a tale of two “wars”
March 8, 2025 3:13 am Post a CommentAddressing the “real” war first, recently in this blog, I observed that, despite the high politics attending the Ukraine conflict,... View Article
Defence: the least of our problems
October 25, 2024 3:11 am Post a CommentI get the feeling it’s about time I wrote some more on Ukraine, although looking at the Donbass and Kursk... View Article
Defence: the wrong kind of war
July 11, 2024 3:15 am Post a CommentSince taking office, perhaps the only sensible thing Starmer has done is to commission a strategic defence review. Before committing... View Article
Pakistan: the electoral effect
May 10, 2023 2:29 am Post a CommentAs if we don’t already have enough problems in this benighted country of ours, it looks very much as if... View Article
