Articles by Simon Campion-Brown

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 art of it

Some modern ‘big issues’ that constantly reoccur (or is it ‘never fade away’) have probably occupied the minds of great thinkers since time immemorial. Three easy examples coming to me as I begin typing are the questions ‘How did the universe begin?’, ‘Does God (or a Supreme Being of [...]

June 29, 2017 // 0 Comments

What happens when you turn your back …

Having returned from my luxury three-week river cruise down the Danube, during which my iPad broke down and I couldn’t be bothered to seek out alternative means of keeping in touch with world events, still less those occurring at the Rust, I was somewhat surprised to discover that ‘the [...]

June 26, 2017 // 0 Comments

Must do better

My Bank Holiday weekend was slightly strained at times for domestic reasons, not least because I hadn’t realised that it was one, if you see what I mean. As a retired person, I still have weekdays and weekends, but they tend to all blend into one and in my book a Monday is a ‘weekday’ – end [...]

May 30, 2017 // 0 Comments

Unfolding events cause abandonment of a plan

This is the naked truth. I rose just after 11.00pm last night – slightly earlier than normal, to be honest – in order to begin my (first) day shift. Shortly afterwards I began hearing ‘breaking news’ on Radio Five Live about the explosion(s) at the Manchester Arena after a concert by Ariana [...]

May 23, 2017 // 0 Comments

Wittering on …

My regular readers will no doubt have been missing the incisive Campion-Brown views upon the progress of the General Election but, as I have explained at some length to my editor, whilst I have been following events with my usual day-by-day concentration, I’ve become bored by it and having little [...]

May 16, 2017 // 0 Comments

Voting issues

For several years on this website I have bored readers with my resolutely negative view of Western democratic political elites – not least those of all parties within the UK version – because of their patronising attitude towards the voting electorate. I’ve even suggested that anyone [...]

May 5, 2017 // 0 Comments

Future to the back

Perhaps comic Frankie Howard’s most famous catch-phrase (I recall it most often in the context of his vehicle Up Pompeii!) was a staged aside protest to his audience as they were laughing at a previous insult/gag he’d just cracked about some hapless fellow character: “No don’t – [...]

May 3, 2017 // 0 Comments

Now the fun begins

As a self-professed cynic I sometimes get accused by readers of not taking politics seriously enough in the context of world affairs and the nation’s future etc., but I cannot help that. My area of special interest is the ‘game’ and its procedures rather than the respective party policies and [...]

April 26, 2017 // 0 Comments

A decidedly unimpressive outing

Being en route to London at the time I was unable to watch yesterday’s BBC1 Sunday Politics show as it was being transmitted (unusually) mid-afternoon due to priority being granted to the Beeb’s coverage of the London Marathon. Instead, after a little technical difficulty, I managed to locate [...]

April 24, 2017 // 0 Comments

Awae wi’ the lot a’ ye – ye wee, sleekit, cow’rin, tim’rous beasties …

Last night I couldn’t sleep and so rose and came to my computer in time to join (listening-wise) the Stephen Nolan Show on Radio Five Live mid-flow. The period from around 10.45pm onwards was taken up with a phone-in on the issues arising from the recently-called General Election and most [...]

April 22, 2017 // 0 Comments

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ITV COVERAGE OF CHELTENHAM

March 14, 2026 // 0 Comments

I am in the camp of watching on tv rather than attending for the 3 Cs: cost , convenience and comfort. With the cost of travelling and attending Cheltenham and last [...]
Max Schmelling/ The Good German

March 4, 2026 // 0 Comments

In the unlikely event that I would be asked to nominate a Great Life on Matthew Parris ‘ show my choice would be the Black Uhlan Max Schmelling. In the 1930s thee [...]
The Tanner Report : Fulham 2 spurs 1

March 3, 2026 // 0 Comments

Prior to Fulham ‘s comfortable win over Spurs (2-1) I watched the big match Revisited featuring Chelsea 1 Arsenal 2 i guess in the early 70s It would be foolish to [...]
The Six Nations

February 24, 2026 // 0 Comments

The Six Nations continues to throw up surprises. England could not bounce back against Ireland , a resurgent Wales gave Scotland à close game with the Millennium Stadium [...]
Brentford 0 Brighton 2

February 23, 2026 // 0 Comments

The heat is off Fabian Hürzeler with Brighton ‘s 1st win in 13 games. Club owner Tony Bloom was not at the G Tech stadium due to a long planned family engagement but had [...]