British Politics

Today is a big day for Mitch Benn; it’s his birthday. But he also has a message for those concerned by the presidency of ‘he who must not be named’: Stop clutching your pearls If you’re reading this article on its day of publication, it’s my birthday. On January 20, I turn 47 years old, […]

Ok, we got Brexit, but at least Britain doesn’t have to put up with this ‘War on Christmas’ nonsense Merry Christmas.Yeah I said it. Merry Christmas. If Christmas is something you do, Merry Christmas, and if you do something else, Merry Whatever It Is You Do, and if you do nothing, be merry doing that. […]

Could the battle of left versus right be a thing of the past? So I’ve got a new MP; as I’m sure you will have heard, last week Zac Goldsmith managed to lose a majority of 25,000 in Richmond Park to be unseated by the endearingly gobsmacked-looking Liberal Democrat candidate Sarah Olney. This has been […]

The rejection of expertise, the rejection of facts, embrace of sweeping, ill-informed opinions – welcome to the age of the oaf Nigel Farage (2014) – Credit: PA Archive/PA Images If ever there’s a picture to sum up our times it’s the one disseminated widely last week of Donald Trump and Nigel Farage standing together looking […]

So Jeremy Corbyn was, entirely un-unexpectedly, re-elected leader of the Labour Party and was feted (and immortalised in verse) by an adoring membership in my old hometown of Liverpool. Like most politically unaffiliated liberal intellectual smart-arses, I am unsure how I feel about this. The major objection one encounters to The Corbyn Project is his […]