“Gooood eveneving Cleethorpes! As an African American woman people often ask me, ‘Melania, what first attracted you to Dr Martin Luther Trump Jnr?’ And you know what I say? I say I just fell in love with his voice. He said to me ‘I have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the […]
For those who have spent their political adult lives in dreary back rooms of pubs, fiercely debating if your branch of the ‘Workers R Us’, or some such party, should source its coffee from Socialist Venezuela or the local organic shop, these are heady times. Whereas once you knew your aims would only be achieved […]
0600 – Westminster. Walking towards Parliament through quiet streets I pass two street cleaners staring at their phones and speaking in an East European language. All I understood was the four words they said in English – “48-51”, pause, “48-51!”. 06.30 – Twitterland. I can’t resist and tweet “Politicos, media, and those tweeting they can’t […]
For decades the British political class, and the class of Britons who holiday in Tuscany and the Dordogne, held their fellow countrymen and women who wanted out of the EU in contempt. The most frequent insult casually thrown around was that they were ‘Little Englanders’. Now it appears they were insulting approximately half of the […]
Russia may not want a war with Turkey, but there are signs it is softening up Russian public opinion in case it needs to make the case for conflict. By so doing it is playing a dangerous game as it is upping the stakes in the Syrian war and thus challenging its rivals to respond […]
On the plus side – they’re a bunch of losers who are going to lose. On the negative side – it’ll take some time, and another version of IS will take their place unless the ideology which underpins their fanaticism is diluted. To do this, even while military action is ongoing, we must stop saying […]
