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In beginning today’s post – a brief comment upon the resignation of Lib-Dem Norman Baker from his role as a Home Office minister – I should perhaps begin with a declaration of (non) interest. I have never voted in any political election, I am not a supporter of any of the three main – [...]

In a perverse way, probably like many National Rust readers, I quite enjoyed my live Sky News coverage of David Cameron’s press conference meltdown yesterday over the EU’s latest demand of the United Kingdom – a £1.7 billion ‘penalty’ for our economy performing slightly better than [...]

Any worthwhile study of how politics works should be grounded in an exercise in developing an understanding of the absurd and counter-intuitive. Listening to the radio, reading the newspapers and watching current affairs television programmes over the weekend, one was forcibly reminded of the fact. [...]

I am personally devastated by the “No” result of the Scottish referendum. All my soundings, feelers, expectations and indeed earnest hopes were that the Jocks would vote for independence and leave the rest of the UK to go forward into a brave new world in which we would eventually dominate [...]