There are moments when it is quite hard to work out what to blog. Having reviewed the carnage of yesterday when waking this morning,
Read the full article…

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
Read the full article…

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
Read the full article…

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
Read the full article…

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
Read the full article…

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
Read the full article…

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
Read the full article…

As the Guardian notes this morning: Britons should expect to suffer a more severe bout of inflation than other major economies during the current energy
Read the full article…

There is a small, but worrying, groundswell of opinion developing at present that suggests that the whole of the government’s anti-protest legislation is simply an
Read the full article…