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Jul 28, 2017, 3:07 PM

Why I’m backing Jacob Rees-Mogg as next Tory leader

Theresa May’s time is surely up. Exactly when she leaves Number 10 for the final time is only a matter of logistics. The party now must plan ahead and ready a candidate willing and able to take on a resurgent Jeremy Corbyn whose popularity –...

Feb 2, 2017, 1:00 PM

We Brexiteers are responsible to restrain the ugly face of populism

It’s not difficult to connect the dots between Donald Trump’s election victory and Britain’s vote to leave the EU in June. Both results defied the odds in a fashion quite like no other. Both contests revealed a revulsion for a political elite viewed as introverted...

Jul 21, 2016, 11:37 AM

Corbyn is abhorrent, but I’ll be willing him on

It is hard to not feel a degree of empathy for Jeremy Corbyn. Humiliated by his own MPs and made to look further ridiculous and amateur by successive Tory leaders, he has clung on impressively, defying the odds which more or less sums up his...

Jul 21, 2016, 2:34 AM

Gove will return, but his prime ministerial prospects are finished

Comparisons with Brutus’s slaying of Caesar have been rife. Michael Gove’s eleventh-hour decision to withdraw his support for Boris Johnson’s leadership bid and announce his own bid, thus taking a sizeable amount of MP’s supporting Boris with him, was viewed as an act of Machiavellian...

Jul 15, 2016, 4:19 PM

Stability, pragmatism and the EU: David Cameron’s legacy

“I was the future once”. These were David Cameron’s final words as prime minister in the House of Commons echoing those of his very first appearance as leader of the Conservative Party back in 2005 when he teased a speechless Tony Blair, quipping that ‘he...

Jul 13, 2016, 7:50 PM

Cross-party Blairites should unite so they can be eternally defeated

With the political carnage of the last few weeks acting as a stark reminder that nothing is impossible, a rather interesting article popped up in The Guardian on Saturday quoting a ‘cabinet minister’ who claimed Tory and Labour MP’s have held ‘informal discussions’ about establishing...

Jun 24, 2016, 3:45 PM

Farage’s referendum evolves into Boris’s moment

A decade after telling his party to ‘stop banging on about Europe,’ David Cameron has been floored by this hotly contested topic. One couldn’t help feeling a little sorry for him as he addressed the global media outside 10 Downing Street early this morning. After...

Jun 22, 2016, 1:37 PM

Vote Leave to free ourselves from the greedy handcuffs of faceless Brussels bureaucrats

In an era where one can frustratingly listen with a craned-neck to identify differences between competing politicians during general election campaigns, the differences in the conflict between retaining our membership of the European Union and discarding it are numerous and blatant to all. It has...

May 26, 2016, 1:33 PM

Is Labour’s anti-Semitism row overblown?

Amidst the furor of the anti-Semitism row within the UK Labour Party, there has been little in the way of a levelheaded discussion about a variety of issues this episode has raised. This is hardly a perplexing phenomenon in a political arena where reasoned, substantial...

Apr 3, 2016, 2:54 PM

Centrist politician? You mean unprincipled careerist

You can feel it coming. A rumbling change is taking place in Anglo-American politics and its about time. In the last few decades, politics in Western countries has been hijacked by a careerist and fundamentally apolitical bunch with little regard for the people or the...

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