Politics: unreality
May 30, 2026 3:31 am Post a CommentThe ultimate purpose of this blog is to make sense of things. Even if I had no readers at all,... View Article
Tag Archive: Starmer
Politics: no shooting – yet
May 16, 2026 2:25 am Post a CommentWell, that point has arrived – I can no longer bear to write about the train-wreck that is British politics.... View Article
Politics: the new normal
May 15, 2026 2:36 am Post a CommentI’ve almost got to the state where I can hardly bear to write about the Labour leadership crisis. Even the... View Article
Politics: race to the bottom
May 14, 2026 2:44 am Post a Comment“Embattled Sir Keir Starmer has warned his ministers and MPs a challenge against his leadership could ‘plunge us into chaos’,... View Article
Politics: be careful what you wish for
May 13, 2026 3:03 am Post a CommentIt’s easy to lose sight of the fact that the proximate cause of the leadership crisis in the Labour Party... View Article
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
Law and order: antisemitism
May 3, 2026 2:42 am Post a CommentAll of a sudden, three strands of media interest have emerged, each with their distinct characteristics but all of them... View Article
Middle East: No more Mr Nice Guy!
April 30, 2026 3:27 am Post a CommentAt times, it seems perverse writing about a distant conflict when, to all intents and purposes, we have a low-grade... View Article
Politics: enjoy the show
April 17, 2026 3:18 am Post a CommentThe brouhaha over Mandelson’s vetting reminds me of a cartoon I saw a long, long time ago. It showed an... View Article
Middle East: in for the long-haul?
April 14, 2026 3:50 am Post a CommentAs the US blockade of the Strait of Hormuz took effect, the world stopped briefly to note Starmer’s complaint that,... View Article
Middle East: choose your enemy
April 7, 2026 3:21 am Post a CommentWith Trump poised to bomb Iran back into the Stone Age (where it belongs, he says), Starmer seems determined to... View Article
Politics: trouble on the right
March 4, 2026 3:22 am Post a CommentEven while president Trump was lashing out at Starmer for his lack of support for the US, suggesting that he... View Article
Defence: no sign of change
February 15, 2026 3:27 am Post a CommentI have read and re-read Starmer’s speech, delivered to the Munich Security Conference yesterday, not least because I assumed that... View Article
Politics: a great darkness
February 12, 2026 2:25 am Post a CommentIn the early 20th Century, at the height of the British Raj, the number of British-born residents in India, including... View Article
Politics: pride before the fall
February 6, 2026 2:25 am Post a CommentIt had been arranged some time ago at the Horntye Park sports club in Hastings – one of those dreary... View Article
Politics: out of their depth
December 29, 2025 3:14 am Post a CommentThe Alaa Abdel Fattah story has moved on at lighting speed, so much so that MPs from both sides of... View Article
