Maybe Icarus can land with a glide
“The Liberal Democrats misread the political mood. Yet perhaps not all is lost”, writes Martin Kettle. Three conclusions follow. The first is that Brexit has not reshaped the electoral battle as...
View Article“We are the first societies in human history where the old outnumber the young”
How Boris Johnson’s Brexit Won In the link above Isaac Chotiner of the New Yorker interviews Professor David Runciman of Cambridge. I must confess that I only have to see the New Yorker‘s distinctive...
View ArticleGeorge Friedman on the Posh versus the Blokes
George Friedman of Geopolitical Futures looks at class and Brexit: The Posh versus the Blokes in the UK I arrived in London on Saturday afternoon. Traffic was heavy and it took nearly two hours to...
View ArticleAbout Bloody Time
MPs vote by 358 to 234 to back Boris Johnson’s Brexit bill to leave EU on 31 January They voted 358 to 234 in favour of the EU (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill, which now goes on to further scrutiny in the...
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The Labour Theory of Value as understood by People’s Vote
People’s Vote UK have tweeted: People’s Vote UK @peoplesvote_uk This year by the numbers: Two People’s Vote Marches Over a million people at each march Record fundraising year 5 Million leaflets...
View ArticleWhy Ben Habib will support Boris’ WA
“First, the Prime Minister personally and Conservative Party via its election manifesto have both undertaken to limit the Transition Period to December 2020 (now to be enacted into law) and not to...
View ArticleForgiveness is only appropriate after repentance
The people who tried to thwart the implementation of a vote they lost must not be forgiven until they repent. People like Jolyon Maugham QC could have pushed the nation into a 1642 moment if they had...
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In spite of Brexit…
Now that the British exit from the European Union is a legal reality, the economic situation in the UK has been surprisingly sedate. This will be a surprise for those who believed the assurances of...
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