Politics

Discerning Rusters may have noticed a strange irony emerging from this ‘sudden, short, sharp (and December) General Election campaign’ which has been pitched by Boris as the best and/or only way of breaking the deadlock of the paralysed Houses of Parliament over Brexit as a result of the secret [...]

I regret this post is another dispatch from the General Election front line – albeit hopefully a brief one – following my dipping in and out of the special edition of Question Time (chaired by Fiona Bruce) that was broadcast last night on BBC1 at 9.00pm. The format was that the leaders of the [...]

Hmnn …. as I begin this post I’m conscious that many Rusters may be fed up to the back teeth with Brexit’s latest manifestation – the General Election – but after yesterday’s developments the bee in my proverbial bonnet has been buzzing in my brain like a jackhammer road drill which [...]

We are – what? – two days and counting into the General Election campaign and all I have seen and read leads me to the conclusion that ‘The Nightmare’ [the three year crisis over Brexit which has now extended into a general existential crisis over our political elite, the constitution and [...]

Tuned to Up All Night on Radio Five Live overnight, about 3.30am I think it was, I caught what I’d describe (possibly erroneously) as the regular “Brexit Podcast” produced by the BBC’s political correspondents sitting around and just discussing the latest developments in Parliament. During [...]

Well, yesterday’s House of Commons “Super Saturday” – the first since the Falklands War crisis of 1982 – was a bit of a damp squib, wasn’t it? With the current Brexit 31st October departure date looming ever closer everybody involved, including the media, had assumed in advance that [...]