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About Lavinia Thompson

A university lecturer for many years, both at home and abroad, Lavinia Thompson retired in 2008 and has since taken up freelance journalism. She is currently studying for a distant learning degree in geo-political science and lives in Norwich with her partner. More Posts

Counting down …

Now with just 19 days to go to the EU Referendum, it seems that both the Remainers and Leavers campaign have finally settled into their respective comfort zones – the economy versus the ‘leap into the dark’ for the former, ‘Let’s get our country back from the twin evils of an unelected [...]

June 4, 2016 // 0 Comments

Some may not like it up ’em (at least at this time of the morning)

Yesterday my schedule had been built in advance around the latest Prime Minister’s Question Time shown live from the House of Commons on BBC2 as part of the Daily Politics programme hosted by Andrew Neil. What I hadn’t banked upon was the fact that David Cameron wasn’t going to be there – [...]

May 26, 2016 // 0 Comments

Tough times

It never rains but it pours and currently, as he reminded us yesterday, just 45 days from the EU Referendum David Cameron could be heading for a cliff. Here’s a link to an analysis by Ben Chu, economics editor of The Independent, of progress since the Tories’ unexpected victory in the [...]

May 8, 2016 // 0 Comments

Heady stuff

Today I rather enjoyed two politically-related pieces to be found on the website of The Independent, not normally a ‘broadsheet’ that in my experience offers the best heavyweight insights on the subject. Firstly, on the topic of the UK’s EU referendum in June, yesterday Labour leader Jeremy [...]

April 15, 2016 // 0 Comments

One things leads to another …

Going down through history, one wouldn’t doubt that being Prime Minister of the United Kingdom must be one of the most frustrating jobs in world politics. You fight your way to the top of the greasy pole – and then the greasy electoral poll; you receive the keys to Number 10 Downing Street; you [...]

April 9, 2016 // 0 Comments

Counting the chickens

The course of current events and developing issues are doing little to dispel the ‘chaos’ theory of politics, whether at home or in the United States. I’m no expert on American history or politics but the Trump phenomenon simply goes to reinforce the general impression on this side of the [...]

March 13, 2016 // 0 Comments

It doesn’t get any easier

Amidst all the hoo-hah about the EU Referendum it is sometimes difficult to get a handle on ‘normal politics’ or indeed the wider picture. Never mind the travails of the Labour party in opposition with its new leader, one of the biggest side-shows in town is trying to establish what exactly is [...]

March 6, 2016 // 0 Comments

The opening salvos

Yesterday the nation opened its newspapers to be confronted with near-blanket front-page coverage of Boris Johnson’s declaration in favour of the ‘Brexit’ campaign. Usually I buy into the media’s ‘public interest’ (at least the ‘giving-the-public-what-it-wants’ version of that term) [...]

February 23, 2016 // 0 Comments

They’re off! The Referendum race begins …

And so we now know that the UK’s Referendum on whether or not to remain in the EU will take place on Thursday 23rd June. There’s little doubt – based upon the last six to eight months of the Prime Minister’s apparent tactics on the issue and the various splits within the Tory cabinet that [...]

February 21, 2016 // 0 Comments

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