Articles tagged Opinion:
Lady Macbeth is alive and well. 'Fair is foul and foul is fair' should be the SNP campaign slogan
- 17 Apr 2015
I always thought that Alex Salmond was a slippery devil and a serious political operator, but compared to the malevolent force of nature that is embodied in Sturgeon he is a pussycat. At least he would slip in the stiletto with a smile. The really scary thing about her is that...
When Miliband was undermining Blair for Brown he used to be referred to as the emissary from planet fuck
- 7 Apr 2015
The trouble with the modern election is that we are all being bombarded on the social media with so much information, disinformation, scams, red herrings, dead herrings and total unbelievable bollocks that even an old cynic like me sometimes feels that my head is going to expl...
Sturgeon has the aura of a charming down to earth mum in a teen scream movie who is secretly experimenting on barely living bodies in the cellar
- 3 Apr 2015
Well, at least nobody tanked. Cameron did well, Miliband was a bit flat, Sturgeon feisty, Farage repulsive and Clegg charmed the pants off of everyone. I know that some of his critics say that his performance was no more than a repeat of 2010 and maybe it was. But he swatted M...
Who Scares Wins
- 1 Apr 2015
God, this is a depressing, awful, nasty and brutish election. And we have only just started. If 2010 was about compassion (well, a bit), this should be sub headlined, Who Scares Wins. Every party is determined to frighten the bejeebers out of the electorate. So far the sub tex...
At least Ed didn't stab himself in the eye with a biro and kept his trousers from falling to his ankles. For party managers a success.
- 27 Mar 2015
The highlight of last night’s Roman Circus was watching the grade A bitch fight between Caroline Flint and Liz Truss on Newsnight. The personal loathing between the two of them oozed like a slow acting poison through our screens. The sad thing is that they were both equally a...
My day with the Freedom Association and the excommunication of Tim Montgomerie
- 9 Mar 2015
Travelling on the train to speak the the annual Freedom Festival in Bournemouth this weekend I had this creeping feeling that I had made a terrible mistake. After all I am a dripping wet Cameroon moderniser who thoroughly approves of the direction of the Conservative party has...
Forget the television debates, shove them all in the big brother house for six weeks.
- 5 Mar 2015
So, the big story of the moment is the debate about the debate about the debate. The usual suspects, Prescott and Campbell, predictably are accusing Cameron of being cowardly for not agreeing to a head to head with Miliband and just offering one debate with seven party leaders...
Just as I thought the Telegraph could sink no lower they splash a dodgy sting story.
- 23 Feb 2015
Just as I thought that the Daily Telegraph could sink no lower they splash a dodgy sting about cash for access. Now put out of your minds whether you think that MPs should have no outside interests and ignore what you might think of the policies of Jack Straw and Malcolm Rifki...
The Telegraph front page is a ruthless and cynical attempt to close the Oborne story down. They will succeed
- 21 Feb 2015
What on earth did senior management of the Telegraph think that they were doing running that appalling story on their front page this morning? You know the one about suicides at the TIMES because of the pressures put on them by Murdoch management to cosy up to advertisers. And...
Not only has barrister David Osborne have stone age views on rape he has previously called for the abolition of juries because they contain women and riff raff
- 9 Feb 2015
I have been reading with the sick fascination that some people have from rubber necking a car crash the utterings of ‘Top Barrister’ David Osborne. His views on rape are simply just that; views. They are not the law. A woman (or a man ) not only has to consent but be in a fi...