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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

It’s a hard one, innit?

Yesterday I was out-and-about and only caught snatches of David Cameron’s statement on the subject of extending the UK’s current bombing of ISIS targets in Iraq to Syria, either ‘live’ or subsequently on news/current affairs programmes. I’m neither a hawk nor a peacenik by inclination but [...]

November 27, 2015 // 0 Comments

An interesting time, maybe

The world of politics has entered a confused and yet fascinating stage. Even if you take the view that Labour has entered a ‘lunatics have taken over the asylum’ phase, the Tories are hardly faring much better. With David Cameron – their version of Tony Blair – having publicly [...]

November 22, 2015 // 0 Comments

Troubling times all round

When it comes to discussing important matters such as global politics, religion, one man’s terrorist being another’s freedom fighter, good versus evil, the meaning of life, common human values, the defence of civil liberties versus government’s key responsibility  to protect the public, ‘I [...]

November 18, 2015 // 0 Comments

Sometimes heat just obscures light

I like to maintain that I’m apolitical and impartial when it comes to the British political system and how it operates. On top of that, I certainly possess neither the intelligence nor the interest in the subject to understand all the undoubted complexities of the current cause celebre in the [...]

November 6, 2015 // 0 Comments

Once more unto the breach …

I’ve been trying and failing to decide whether to begin this piece with the theme “You couldn’t make it up …” or, alternatively the truism that some things in life generally (let alone in Britain) are so ridiculous that they’re quite beyond parody. On the back of last night’s House of [...]

October 27, 2015 // 0 Comments

The horns of something, maybe …

A champion of free speech/enterprise or an interfering Nanny State? Which of those two should an ideal modern, dynamic but caring government be? It’s an aspect of politics that has always fascinated me. I used to take the simplistic view that best way to characterise politics was that (in the UK) [...]

October 25, 2015 // 0 Comments

The EU conundrum

This morning in the Daily Telegraph – and on this subject (pardon me for this) I do not know the paper’s official editorial stance – there is a feature article claiming that a significant group of Tory donors, business leaders and senior politicians are now backing the campaign to leave the [...]

October 9, 2015 // 0 Comments

Happy times are here again!

I particularly enjoy the autumn political parties’ conference season because of the opportunity it provides to watch each of them preaching to the converted and supposedly seeking to reach out to the wider British public. Quite how the media still treats the Lib-Dems as a serious political party [...]

September 30, 2015 // 0 Comments

First impressions

Shortly after the BBC’s Daily Politics show’s coverage of the House of Commons’ Prime Minister’s Question Time had finished yesterday I had occasion to ring one of my brothers to discuss a subject of mutual interest. As it happens, at the time he was in the middle of a meeting with my other [...]

September 17, 2015 // 0 Comments

Ding Ding – round one!

I consider myself an average sort of guy but in a detached sort of way I’m genuinely excited by Jeremy Corbyn’s assent to the Labour leadership. It’s certainly going to herald a fascinating period of politics in Britain, requiring ‘the Establishment’ – all of it – to ask itself [...]

September 14, 2015 // 0 Comments

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