13 July 2107 Lost in Eden Is Sir Anthony a fair comparison? by J.R. Thomas The Financial Times columnist Bruce Anderson recently penned a characteristically direct and unsparing (“vicious” would be another word) article on the premiership and personality of Theresa May, in which he called her the “least successful Tory leader since Anthony Eden…”. … Continue reading Issue 113:2017 06 13:Lost in Eden(J.R.Thomas)
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Issue99:2016 04 06:Throwing the sword into the lake (J.R.Thomas)
06 April 2017 Throwing the Sword into the Lake Moving on from Camelot by J.R.Thomas A couple of weeks ago Robert Silvers, founder and editor for life of that distinguished magazine The New York Review of Books died, aged 87. Mr Silvers was one of those erudite energetic east coast liberals that Mr Trump… Continue reading Issue99:2016 04 06:Throwing the sword into the lake (J.R.Thomas)
Issue 72: 2016 09 22: Radical Pinstripes (J.R.Thomas)
22 September 2016 Radical Pinstripes Mr MacMillan’s recipe. by J.R.Thomas The departure of David Cameron from the political stage – a moderately popular act sadly ending by our hero tripping and tumbling into the orchestra pit, dragging half his fellow stage strutters with him, probably marks the end of one of the periodic periods of… Continue reading Issue 72: 2016 09 22: Radical Pinstripes (J.R.Thomas)
Issue 60: 2016 06 30:That old Churchillian feeling(J.R.Thomas)
30 June 2016 That old Churchillian feeling Boris Johnson’s claim by J.R.Thomas Set out the features you would like in your next male Tory Prime Minister. A family man, you might say, with perhaps four children, to sketch in a happy home life and stability. Some family background in politics so that he has an… Continue reading Issue 60: 2016 06 30:That old Churchillian feeling(J.R.Thomas)
Issue 32: 2015 12 10: War For Our Time
10 December 2015 War For Our Time by J R Thomas That of course was not what Neville Chamberlain said. He apparently did not even mean to say what he did say. As he stood outside Downing Street on his return from his visit to Hitler on 30th September 1938 to sign the Munich… Continue reading Issue 32: 2015 12 10: War For Our Time
Issue 27: 2015 11 05: The Light At The Top Of The Tree
05 November 2015 The Light At The Top Of The Tree By John Watson Most people, if they were asked about Lord Raglan, would start talking about sleeves; and indeed the style was invented for him by Aquascutum so that he could better use his sword in battle, his right arm having been amputated at… Continue reading Issue 27: 2015 11 05: The Light At The Top Of The Tree
