Number 10 are now singing from the stricken leader in the bunker ‘fight back’ play book. Arrogant macho posturing that he will fight and fight to win. Parade his diehard loyalists on the media telling us that support has never been stronger in the vain hope that it may be true...
Just how low can the Conservative party sink? I thought that we were on a downward descent when Liz Truss broke her oath as Lord Chancellor to protect the judiciary when the press attacked our independent judiciary as Enemies of the People. Things had become pretty tawdry befo...
What a bloody awful mess we are in. And it’s going to get worse. Some of us have been warning publicly for well over a year, as was Sunak privately, that we were heading full steam ahead for the seventies. Stagflation. Spiralling wage costs. The end of cheap money. And a massi...
Yesterday I attended the Criminal Bar Association winter conference. It was joyous and uplifting to see so many old friends. But ‘old’ was the the name of the game. There were very few young barristers there. Why? Because appalling working conditions, low pay, stress, the wor...
I suspect that this is the last time the Grand old Duke of Pork will lead his troops to the top of the hill and march them down again. He has trashed the Conservative brand, trashed Parliament and trashed the reputations of hardworking, honest members of Parliament; which is m...
Thank heavens that most of the government front bench were wearing face coverings during the budget speech today. Apart from their green eyes it concealed their envy at the most outrageous bid for the leadership that I have ever seen. And I got the distinct impression that s...
Reshuffles are rather strange affairs. They are a little like relying on your sat nav without previously consulting a map as sometime you end up where you don’t want to be. This latest effort is more a tribute act to the goings on at Madame Cynthia Payne’s Ambleside Av...
Hardly a day goes by without an old chum turning to me sadly and saying that he is no longer a member of the Conservative Party because of the the crass awfulness of Johnson and his incompetent cabinet. They tend to be split into two groups. Those on the right who think the g...
It is now time for my annual lecture on the pointless irrelevance of the silly season sport of predicting who will be promoted and who will be parliamentary roadkill in the ‘forthcoming’ reshuffle. Dear readers they are total bollocks dreamt up in pubs and bars by journalists ...
MPs always get fractious before the summer break. But none so bitter as the various skirmishes within the Conservative party. A few weeks ago Starmer looked as if he was on the ropes. But now the message that was beginning to sound like an overplayed broken record, namely that...