The Labour party incomprehensibly decided to run a kamikaze Labour candidate in the Richmond Park by-election, thereby risking diverting enough votes from the LibDem challenger to let the discredited Zac Goldsmith (Tory but running...
“[A]t the moment I am in anguish, frightened for my country and for our unity. And for the first time, I feel homeless in America.” Thomas J Friedman, New York Times, 9 Nov. After...
Writing this in New York just before a US presidential election of global significance, it’s easy to overlook the importance and implications for Britain of the judgement of the High Court requiring the government...
J and I have been here in New York for only a few days but we have been watching a lot of local television, ringing the changes on the news channels, including the dire Fox...
Until last weekend, the prime minister had one asset that she could have used to motivate other EU leaders to enter into preliminary discussions of the broad framework of Britain’s future relationship with the...
In a comment on my earlier post, ‘ObiterJ’ has helpfully drawn attention to an article by the philosopher and commentator Professor A C Grayling in which he states forcefully the legal and constitutional case...
In a recent post on Open Democracy UK, the formidable Sunder Katwala has advised us emotional Europeans to get through the mourning phases of grief and anger and at last embrace ‘acceptance’. Being strongly...
Events are moving so swiftly that it’s difficult to write anything that won’t be overtaken a few hours later. The defenestration of Boris Johnson and the candidature to succeed Cameron of Michael Gove (who...
The result of the referendum on 23 June at first seemed conclusive. A clear majority of the UK electorate had voted for withdrawal from the EU. Neither parliament nor any foreseeable UK government can...
Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes insane. That might be Britain’s epitaph after yesterday’s referendum in which a majority of the Britons voting decided that our country is to expel itself...