Jonathan Pie’s take is worth sharing, but it is not for those offended by a certain amount of swearing:
Trump had his January 6. Johnson will want his date with destiny as well.
As I mentioned this morning, whatever is said today is bound, to some degree, to be proved wrong by events quite quickly. But my sense,
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The time to prevaricate is over: we are fighting fascism today
There are moments when it is quite hard to work out what to blog. Having reviewed the carnage of yesterday when waking this morning,
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Thoughts amid the wreckage
There is a rule in our house that phones do not come to the table. Three of us ate together last evening, all pretty avid
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I am so bored by the politic of absence
I am so bored by the politic of absence. What I mean is I have really had enough of politics where the best we dream
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The Tories economic plan is intended to deliver misery, disruption, chaos, and shattered lives
I posted this thread on Twitter this morning: Sunak and Johnson said yesterday that the Bank of England has to act to tackle inflation caused
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Johnson is not a Conservative: he is an authoritarian
I have met and recorded with Peter Oborne. We clearly do not agree with each other on many things, but almost for that reason this
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The Tories are rotten to the top
The sleaze within the Tories really does go very deep. As Politico and many others report, Tory deputy chief whip Chris Pincher MP had to
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Tax havens are in effect the aircraft carriers from which assaults on major democratic states and their policies can be launched. No wonder Russia loves them.
I wrote this more than ten years ago (with minor changes to tenses to suit the new context): Feral capitalism is the unfettered, wild form
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