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About Simon Campion-Brown

A former lecturer in politics at Keele University, Simon now lives in Oxfordshire. Married with two children, in 2007 he decided to monitor the Westminster village via newspaper and television and has never looked back. More Posts

The battle-lines are being drawn

Being cynical about politics, a default position for many of my acquaintance, can become a full-time occupation these days if you let it. As a fascinated observer (the BBC2’s Daily Politics and Sunday Politics being the equivalent of old friends if I ever find myself near a television when the [...]

February 3, 2016 // 0 Comments

Muddied waters rising

Let me see if I can get this straight – the current state of the EU renegotiation and the UK’s impending referendum on staying in or out is roughly as follows: We’re legally bound to hold the referendum by 2017 at the latest. Our esteemed PM announced a couple of years ago that he was going [...]

January 31, 2016 // 0 Comments

A big responsibility

Being a bit hazy on time things, I cannot quite recall how long I’ve been writing my occasional pieces for the Rust but I am much heartened by how at last Britain’s politicians are beginning to appreciate the wisdom of my musings. Having recognised this phenomenon, I am of course also conscious [...]

January 27, 2016 // 0 Comments

Meanwhile, back in the real world …

Last week the Google organisation apparently agreed to pay the sum of £130 million in settlement of a deal agreed with HMRC regarding tax upon its UK revenues generated between 2005 and 2015. At least I think those are the bare facts – it is difficult to tell because ever since the world and his [...]

January 24, 2016 // 0 Comments

Little doubt it’s going to get worse before it gets better …

This morning the first of what may end up becoming several junior doctors’ strikes over the issue of what has been called ‘the 7-day NHS’ will end. Industrial disputes generally tend to pass me by and this one certainly has. I’m not entirely sure why. It could be because I’m too thick and [...]

January 13, 2016 // 0 Comments

The danger of action and consequence

Robert Fisk is a long-time and respected reporter/commentator upon affairs in the Middle-East, north Africa, Syria and Palestine. I don’t know full details of his political standpoint, but let’s put it this way – he never seems to hold back when criticising the West and/or Israel. [...]

December 29, 2015 // 0 Comments

Living in annual festive limbo

By this time of year, like most of the population, I tend to have abandoned all restraint and am ‘going for it’ on the basis that all diets, exercise campaigns, New Year resolutions and vague goals to do better in every aspect of life can and should always begin again with renewed vigour and [...]

December 27, 2015 // 0 Comments

A regular unwelcome reminder

Call me an old cynic but one of the most dispiriting aspects of politics and current affairs is being exposed to the thoughts and opinions of the average British voter – though I don’t doubt for a moment that this observation could also be applied to any voter in any democratic country and [...]

December 18, 2015 // 0 Comments

Events, dear boy …

Here’s an article worth reading – and not because I agree with it, I hasten to add – on the UK’s in-out referendum on the EU, written by columnist Steve Richards, which appears today on the website of – THE [...]

December 15, 2015 // 0 Comments

Damned if you do …

I’ve never made a secret of the fact that I find David Cameron a pretty unimpressive politician, having for many years now alighted upon (and stuck to) the view that he’s little more than a Tory version of Tony Blair. In other words, despite all his brave words and gestures – I’m not saying [...]

December 11, 2015 // 0 Comments

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