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The government’s plans to cut jury trials spits in the face of justice & the concept of a fair trial. I will join Karl Turner MP on the barricades so must you if you believe in democracy
- 28 Feb 2026
I have just read the Courts and Tribunals Bill from cover to cover. It is not a happy read. It is the most authoritarian set of proposals put forward by a democratically elected British government that I have ever had the misfortune to read. It is an affront to our democracy. ...
Who can distance themselves from Mandelson to challenge Starmer? Very, very difficult except for Rayner & what a gift to the Tories
- 6 Feb 2026
I have been involved in politics for over fifty years and have never seen a prime minister so skilfully dismembered by a leader of the opposition. At best they win skirmishes score a few points, get a few cheers and maybe the splendid Quentin Letts gives them a paragraph. Norm...
Kemi has thrown on the mantle of the Terminator now she should heed Arnie’s words, “the future is not set. There is no fate but what we make for ourselves”. There is everything to play for.
- 17 Jan 2026
You could hear the screech of brakes and the smell of burning rubber as, after getting lost on his way to the podium, the ridiculous Jenrick shoved his tongue so far up Nigel Farage’s backside that you needed a team of sniffer dogs to remove it. Was it only a few weeks ago th...
We are sleeping walking into becoming a totalitarian state
- 5 Dec 2025
I never thought that I would think, let alone write, that our sleepy, tolerant and laid back little island is sleep walking into becoming a totalitarian state. You probably think that I am exaggerating to prove some obscure political point. I wish that I was. Let’s loo...
Trump is weak, Starmer stuffed and if Kruger is the answer you are asking the wrong question
- 20 Sep 2025
You would have to have a heart of stone not to have bathed in the deliciously saccharine waters of Trump’s state visit. The sheer Disneyland of the pageantry, the gold coaches, the brass bands, crowns and tiaras are the sort of Olde England fantasy that obsesses so many Americ...
Attacking Andy Burnham is like strangling the Andrex Puppy. Starmer beware
- 14 Sep 2025
I haven’t blogged for a while simply because politics has become too monochrome, dreary & predictable. With the notable exception of Tim Shipman, there has been little original insider insight other than the echo chamber of Westminster wannabes. How much more can you add ...
Farage’s real problems will start when Suella’s cloven hooves trot into his camp
- 26 May 2025
The political depravity of Boris Johnson has hit new depths; if that was remotely imaginable. After trashing the Conservative brand, the constitution and giving us the Edward Munchian horror of Liz Truss, whose Brexit negotiations were once described by an official as a ‘mad w...
Is this the beginning of the end of Reform and is Nigel Farage the Messiah or just a very naughty boy?
- 9 Mar 2025
The row that is ripping Reform apart was inevitable. Whatever you may think of his views Nigel Farage is a force of political nature. He is charismatic, authentic and utterly ruthless. He can communicate directly with the electorate which very few politicians are capable of. T...
When will our Trump apologists finally renounce him?
- 1 Mar 2025
I hope that our political elites have had the scales finally fall from their eyes about that monster incarnate Trump. Until yesterday they would have us buy into the convenient myth, peddled by that other narcissist Boris Johnson, that Trump is merely trying to shock us into t...
Is the appointment of Mandelson an act of genius or an act of self destruction? Nigel Farage should sup with him with a very long spoon
- 29 Dec 2024
The year before Margaret Thatcher was given a mortal blow by Sir Geoffrey Howe’s broken cricket bat, David Mellor sidled up to me in the lobby muttering, ‘ it’s like the OK coral. We are shooting at everything that moves’. I imagine that you could have a similar a conv...