After June 23rd, David Cameron is history. Uncivil war in the Tory Party.
“TELL us,” asked Ed Milliband, on his first outing on BBC’s Question Time since he ceased being Labour leader, “which non-EU country would the UK be like post-Brexit?” The prominent pro-Leave Tory MP...
View ArticleLeaving the EU because of fear of foreigners would be a tragedy.
“WE must take back control – control of our borders, control of our finances and control of our laws.” The relentless mantra from the Leave side in Thursday’s television debate almost had me throwing...
View ArticleTrump and IS – made for each other. My column on Orlando and the Presidential...
BARACK Obama seems to age visibly after every mass shooting. He has had to deal with 18 of them. Eighteen attempts to find a new way of drafting the platitudes of condolence to the bereaved. Eighteen...
View ArticleComputer says you get fifteen to life. My review of “Big Data – does size...
Like most journalists I am both fascinated and repelled by big data. On the one hand it seems amazing that Google can predict the spread of disease by examining millions of search questions. On the...
View ArticleBrexit could deliver Scottish independence – but at what cost?
Project Fear moved up a level this week with Nicola Sturgeon predicting a “right wing Tory takeover” after a Brexit vote, and the Chancellor George Osborne promising to raise taxes and cut spending in...
View ArticleThe Ukip Breaking Point was certainly the breaking point for me.
THE shooting of the Labour MP Jo Cox, on the day that Ukip’s Nigel Farage unveiled one of the most racist posters in British electoral history, caused the referendum campaign to slam on the brakes. The...
View ArticleThe Scottish independence referendum was a festival of politics compared with...
Nicola Sturgeon’s decision to forswear political opportunism and campaign for remaining in the European Union has been vindicated by the horror show taking place south of the border. Never has the gulf...
View ArticleWe are Brexit – and we don’t care.
The goggle-eyed Ukip leader, Nigel Farage, had it half right in his 5.am “independence day” rant. This was a revolt of “ordinary people” – working people, Labour people, the kind often dismissed as...
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I DON’T know about the farce, but it certainly felt like history repeating itself as tragedy. David Cameron, holding back the tears, announcing his resignation the morning after a referendum defeat. It...
View ArticleThe European dream has died. The UK’s is looking pretty sick after Brexit.
I DON’T know about the farce, but it certainly felt like history repeating itself as tragedy. David Cameron, holding back the tears, announcing his resignation the morning after a referendum defeat. It...
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