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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

Mindless bickering, but let’s keep our eye on the ball that counts

I don’t know about you, but I’m getting somewhat fed up by the continuing war over the UK Referendum result – or perhaps I’m really referring to the amount of media coverage that it is still getting. Yes, okay, I know we’re bang-slap in the middle of the traditional media ‘silly [...]

July 26, 2016 // 0 Comments

This ‘stuck record’ is finally coming to a halt, I promise …

What continues to surprise me is the degree to which, in this post-EU Referendum world, the outcome – together with its implications and the uncertainties as to what it might mean for the UK and its people – has been dominating the media. I’m referring to the Leavers’ ongoing remorse, [...]

July 22, 2016 // 0 Comments

Not raining, but pouring

We like to keep a varied window on the modern world at this esteemed organ but today, despite the UK’s recent political scene rather dominating recent posts, I make no apology for returning again to the topic. Hopefully, when readers buy their value-for-money Christmas stocking filler copy of [...]

July 12, 2016 // 0 Comments

Bonfire of the vanities

Let us be generous – maybe Tony Blair is right. Maybe technically he didn’t actually lie to Parliament and/or the British nation when he engineered the rubber-stamping of his decision to enter the 2003 Iraq War, riding shotgun to stagecoach driver George Bush as America embarked upon [...]

July 11, 2016 // 0 Comments

Hmmmnnn …

Pardon me for being mischievous but, having read this story on the website of The Independent this morning, I’ve been trying to work out whether it is just a piece of factual reporting … or, alternatively, an outrageous piece of Remain propaganda being put out by some sore loser still [...]

July 8, 2016 // 0 Comments

Round and round we go

Last night I watched a report by Adrian Chiles for the BBC1 current affairs programme Panorama on the subject of those who had voted for Brexit in the EU Referendum. For some people Chiles is a ‘Marmite’ broadcaster, but personally I quite like his often perceptive questioning coming, as it [...]

July 5, 2016 // 0 Comments

Another lost weekend

After another Sunday morning spent in my favourite armchair flicking through the newspapers with BBC1’s The Andrew Marr Show and then Sunday Politics playing on the television in the corner of the room I suppose I should feel ashamed of myself but actually don’t. ‘Rubber-necking’ is what I [...]

July 4, 2016 // 0 Comments

View from the bunker

There exist theories that reality is a dream and vice versa; that there is a parallel universe, or indeed several existing simultaneously; that time is a human concept, and only a human concept, devised to explain something else quite different but I cannot quite remember what that was; and, of [...]

July 1, 2016 // 0 Comments

What’s really important

Sport and legendary characters go hand in hand. One of the greatest of them in my book was Bill Shankly, manager of Liverpool FC from 1959 to 1974. My favourite quotation of his was: ‘Some people believe football is a matter of life and death. I am very disappointed with that attitude. I can [...]

June 28, 2016 // 0 Comments

Politicians overboard … who will rescue them?

The fallout from the EU Referendum continues to expand like wildfire and more than one political commentator is now referring to it as not ‘one of’ but the biggest political crisis since WW2. See here for an example – Michael White writing in – THE GUARDIAN The basic problem is that it’s [...]

June 27, 2016 // 0 Comments

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