Articles by Simon Campion-Brown

Spotted today on the website of The Guardian, an excellent article by Jonathan Freedland on the implications of a ‘Yes’ vote in the Scottish independence referendum which I commend to readers of the National Rust – see here – JONATHAN [...]

As the date of the Scottish independent referendum fast approaches, it seems that the ‘No’ campaigners, not least British politicians of all political persuasions, having finally woken up and realised that there is a real possibility that Scotland will vote to go independent and begun reaching [...]

We learn today that Britain is now getting involved in the Islamic State (formerly ISIS) crisis in Iraq beyond the supplying of humanitarian aid to the refugees who fled – or who are still fleeing – from persecution and/or genocide. This raises many issues, not least David Cameron’s approach [...]

An elderly man of my acquaintance, bless him, holds strong political views. Let’s just say that, whilst they’re not quite out there to the right of Attila The Hun, sometimes I suspect that he’s still struggling to come to terms with the concept of democracy. In bald terms – his argument [...]

Two posts in two days on Prime Minister David Cameron – I must be losing my marbles! It just seems to me that our beloved, rudderless, Leader has boxed himself into a corner on the question of the UK’s membership of the EU. Whether he’s doing this off his own bat, or being advised by juvenile [...]