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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

Maybe a common sense approach would work

According to my brief researches on the internet it was Oscar Wilde who originated the bon mot about life tending to imitating art (rather than the other way around) and already it’s semi-amusing to see how the American right’s flirtation with its Trump Experiment is simultaneously shaking up [...]

January 30, 2017 // 0 Comments

Watching it all anyway

One of the special hallmarks of this website is its editorial stance, or some might suggest lack of one. I’m reminded of it every time I consider making a contribution because it forces me to confront probably the most beneficial constraints and imperatives that any would-be scribe can operate [...]

January 28, 2017 // 0 Comments

The way forward

Now let’s get this straight. Donald ‘Slim Pickens’ Trump is the new President of the United States and already he’s behaving like a loose cannon, ruffling feathers everywhere, issuing executive orders destroying every aspect of the Obama legacy that appears on his radar, warning China of a [...]

January 24, 2017 // 0 Comments

Interesting times

Over the last couple of years the world has endured an extraordinary succession of geo-political and national developments (one hesitates to say ‘crises’). Hold the phone a second. I was conscious just now that when I began typing the above sentence that ‘succession’ might not be the [...]

January 20, 2017 // 0 Comments

Fasten your seat-belts!

A confession. This morning when I came to the computer  I had originally considered apologising for returning to this subject again so soon but then I had second thoughts. Why on earth should I worry, if nobody else isn’t? After all the bizarreness of the world news hit us in 2016, there’s [...]

January 12, 2017 // 0 Comments

Twelve more months

After what might be regarded as the ‘traumas’ of 2016 suffered by the world of Western politics generally, it has been predicted by a number of pundits, commentators and indeed some politicians themselves that we’re going to be in for a pretty rough ride over the next twelve months. One [...]

January 10, 2017 // 0 Comments

The application of common sense

About this terrorist attack on the market in the centre of Berlin, its aftermath and the bloody end of the Tunisian Anis Amri, widely suspected to have being the main perpetrator, in Milan after a European-wide manhunt – pardon me, but am I missing something? Let me begin by mentioning a couple [...]

December 24, 2016 // 0 Comments

Floundering in aspic?

Is it just me, or is the new Tory government regime under Mrs May distinctly under-impressive it its performance? Whether it’s a matter of fact, or just an impression I’ve gained, but it doesn’t seem to be scoring many runs at the moment. The common view within the Westminster ‘bubble’ is [...]

December 13, 2016 // 0 Comments

Aha! At last I think I’m ‘getting’ it …

Let me explain how you – okay, what I really mean is I – can hold two on-the face-of-it completely contradictory political views at the same time. It’s as simple as this. Firstly, I take the view it is a given that democracy (in its Western liberal ‘one man, one vote’ form) is a decidedly [...]

November 29, 2016 // 0 Comments

(As Marvin Gaye once warbled) What’s Going On

Much as the Establishments of the UK and EU might wish otherwise the Brexit Conundrum continues to dominate political and the news agendas across Europe and – for all I know – across large parts of the globe as well. Everything happening these days seems to come with some angle or another upon [...]

November 26, 2016 // 0 Comments

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