13 June 2019 Dialogue With Russia Putin’s olive branch. By Robert Kilconner In last week’s column, the Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornbury and the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn were both criticised for their aggressive comments about President Trump, not because those comments were necessarily wrong but because, as political leaders, they needed to think about
13 June 2019 Diary of a Corbynista Boris nearly there by Don Urquhart 6 June Here’s Tory leadership candidate Matt Hancock about Jeremy Corbyn: The UK could end up with the first anti-Semitic leader of a Western nation since the Second World War. He might think he is doing his chances a power of good
13 June 2019 Woodford Investments: Don’t Blame It On The Sunshine Investors should self-examine by Frank O’Nomics Few people truly understand investment markets, but many want to earn as much money from their savings as they can, and as quickly as possible. Why not then turn to a man who in the past generated a
06 June 2019 Insulting Trump Labour in disgrace. By Robert Kilconner Lots of people do not care for Mr Trump or his politics and it is their right to protest on the streets against his visit. Protests of this sort often involve abuse, satire, mockery and lots of noise. In a free country all those
05 June 2019 Politics For The Birds Trump for PM by J.R. Thomas Last week a friend was kind enough to lend me a battered and curly article on one of the most influential architects of the twentieth century, Cedric Price. “Who?” you are probably saying, unless an architect yourself. Indeed, a good question. This
6 June 2019 Diary of a Corbynista Trump or Corbyn to run Britain? by Don Urquhart 30 May On last night’s programme Robert Peston decided to go on Labour anti-Semitism as one of the nation’s key issues. He probed Len McCluskey on this occasion. James Cleverly, Tory leadership candidate was on and was asked about
06 June 2019 The Tiananmen Playbook China, Sudan, Algeria. By Neil Tidmarsh Last Monday, of course, was the thirtieth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. The authorities in China marked the day by ensuring that it would not be commemorated. Access to the square itself was denied to foreign journalists and to relatives of the
06 June 2019 Costs of University The Augar Report. By John Watson The report by the Post 18 Education and Funding Review Panel, chaired by Philip Augar, is more than 200 pages long and bases its recommendations on a very large amount of information about tertiary education in England. Some of that is hardly news.
30 May 2019 Nothing Changes (.UK) Here again. By J R Thomas Never in the field of political commentary has so much rubbish being laid down in the prints and salons of British politics. To wit: Mr Farage’s Brexit Party will not sweep to triumph in a general election this autumn; the local and Euro
30 May 2019 After The Spanking The Shaw Sheet predicts. By John Watson The Conservative vote down below 9%; Labour’s share in the low teens. The two main parties have been thoroughly punished by the electorate. So what has upset their erstwhile supporters so much? In the case of the Conservatives, there seem to be
