Articles by Simon Campion-Brown

Some great thinkers and commentators have the capacity to get to the core of humanity’s eternal truths. I guess it’s arguable as to whether, when Samuel Johnson pronounced that patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel some 240 years ago, he fingered one of them. Nevertheless, you won’t [...]

As usual, at the risk of sounding like a stuck record and/or being accused of teaching my grandmother to suck eggs, I take some small satisfaction in noticing the machinations of the ‘game’ played by politicians the world over are showing themselves to be almost beyond parody at the moment. I [...]

Dear Mr Cameron, (… or should I more properly be directing myself to Sir Jeremy Heywood … Donald Trump … Philip Hammond … the director of the ‘Remain’ campaign … Bill Gates …  Teresa May … Mark Zuckerberg … Jeremy Corbyn … Nick Clegg … Mr and Mrs Kinnock … Louis van Gaal [...]

This EU Referendum business is already far more fascinating than a General Election. Mounting a General Election campaign is a messy business, of course, because different political parties have widely differing views of the course of history and, naturally, whatever might be happening now or in [...]

And so now Boris has declared his hand. Yippee! At last we’ve got a decent dollop of mayhem, charisma and ‘God knows what?’ added to this EU Referendum business which, for all the excitement it has generated within the Westminster and Fleet Street ‘bubbles’, had been in serious danger of [...]

Having returned from being out all morning, I have now settled in to have a sandwich for lunch and catch-up with what’s going on via watching Sky News … simply because, for reasons best known to itself, my favourite current affairs/political show of all (BBC2’s Daily Politics) has decided to [...]

Overnight – simply because I had gone to bed so early that I woke up again about 11.30pm – I had my first opportunity in a while to listen to Radio Five Live’s Question Time Extra Time hosted by Stephen Nolan and political correspondent Chris Mason. As the title implies, this is an off-shoot [...]