At the end of a week when Labour had more positions on Brexit than are featured in the Karma Sutra and Theresa May used the phrase ‘in the national interest’ without a hint of irony, we await with bated breath…
chris27th September 2018
A botched attempt to conclude an industrial dispute effectively brought Cllr John Clancy’s short tenure as council leader to an end. Now, a row with another union and a protracted failure to agree reforms to an important local authority service…
chris20th September 2018
The obsession with Brexit, and the state of the political parties in the UK at this moment in time, has meant that the consequences of an economic approach that has sent public services back years, pushed more people into poverty,…
chris20th September 2018
The days of John Prescott thumping the table and demanding power for the North are long gone according to the people now in charge of devolution. Instead of the Hull bruiser, we have the softly spoken Nick Forbes, the leader…
chris13th September 2018
Never a week goes by nowadays without our mainstream political parties and leading figures within them demonstrating that many of them are, indeed, as daft as they look. In the Red corner, we had the Corbynista fan club getting rabid…
chris13th September 2018
The rise of populism, not only in the UK but across Europe and indeed across the Atlantic, is causing some historians to reflect that politics, as we know it, may be coming to an end. Post-war, the political settlement in…
chris6th September 2018
Left the field With Brexit extremists undermining their Prime Minister and Labour proving they are unelectable, it seems hardly credible that the forthcoming Liberal Democrat conference is almost irrelevant. At a time when moderate politicians ought to be offering a…
chris4th September 2018
Entrepreneur Richard Branson caused some controversy this week by saying that kids who didn’t pass their exams shouldn’t worry too much – reflecting on the fact that it didn’t do him any harm. Although nobody would advise their offspring to…
chris30th August 2018
