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Interesting times

Over the last couple of years the world has endured an extraordinary succession of geo-political and national developments (one hesitates to say ‘crises’). Hold the phone a second. I was conscious just now that when I began typing the above sentence that ‘succession’ might not be the [...]

January 20, 2017 // 0 Comments

Fasten your seat-belts!

A confession. This morning when I came to the computer  I had originally considered apologising for returning to this subject again so soon but then I had second thoughts. Why on earth should I worry, if nobody else isn’t? After all the bizarreness of the world news hit us in 2016, there’s [...]

January 12, 2017 // 0 Comments

Twelve more months

After what might be regarded as the ‘traumas’ of 2016 suffered by the world of Western politics generally, it has been predicted by a number of pundits, commentators and indeed some politicians themselves that we’re going to be in for a pretty rough ride over the next twelve months. One [...]

January 10, 2017 // 0 Comments

The honeymoon is over – so where’s the beef?

One British political myth – or is it truth – combining both received opinion and straight history is that, whereas the Labour Party is at continual war with itself over ideological issues and in particular engages in prolonged leadership battles, the Tory Party is eternally better off because [...]

December 29, 2016 // 0 Comments

The application of common sense

About this terrorist attack on the market in the centre of Berlin, its aftermath and the bloody end of the Tunisian Anis Amri, widely suspected to have being the main perpetrator, in Milan after a European-wide manhunt – pardon me, but am I missing something? Let me begin by mentioning a couple [...]

December 24, 2016 // 0 Comments

Floundering in aspic?

Is it just me, or is the new Tory government regime under Mrs May distinctly under-impressive it its performance? Whether it’s a matter of fact, or just an impression I’ve gained, but it doesn’t seem to be scoring many runs at the moment. The common view within the Westminster ‘bubble’ is [...]

December 13, 2016 // 0 Comments

Aha! At last I think I’m ‘getting’ it …

Let me explain how you – okay, what I really mean is I – can hold two on-the face-of-it completely contradictory political views at the same time. It’s as simple as this. Firstly, I take the view it is a given that democracy (in its Western liberal ‘one man, one vote’ form) is a decidedly [...]

November 29, 2016 // 0 Comments

(As Marvin Gaye once warbled) What’s Going On

Much as the Establishments of the UK and EU might wish otherwise the Brexit Conundrum continues to dominate political and the news agendas across Europe and – for all I know – across large parts of the globe as well. Everything happening these days seems to come with some angle or another upon [...]

November 26, 2016 // 0 Comments

Phew! It’s tough even keeping up

We live in what can be described as ‘interesting’ times – what with Jeremy Corbyn becoming leader of the Labour Party, the EU Referendum and Brexit, Donald Trump becoming US President-elect, Mr Putin’s Russia continuing to flex its geo-political muscles and European potentially entering a [...]

November 23, 2016 // 0 Comments

The art of modern politics

There is a cute but erroneous notion going the rounds that we only let the Rust’s political columnist Simon Campion-Brown out of his box now and again for fear of alienating readers of a sensitive disposition (not least our own staffers) with some of his hairier views upon those who inhabit the [...]

November 20, 2016 // 0 Comments

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