Politics

Who knows what the outcome of Labour’s party leader election campaign will be? As a keen observer of politics but (I like to think) with no political views of my own, arguably – to me – the identity of the next Labour leader should be of no consequence. I think it probably is, but [...]

The rumours that I had become exhausted or ‘politicked out’ by the General Election on 7th May were correct. There is only so much political process that any one person – well, this one – can take and, naturally, we had a surfeit of it leading up to polling day. I like to think that I was [...]

On days spent at home I tend to potter about my business accompanied by either Radio Five Live or the television broadcasting in the background. On Wednesday this week, shortly before noon, having already arrived late for an early doors meeting on the other side of south-west London because I had [...]

Last night I watched the first Labour leadership candidates’ televised debate – entitled Newsnight- Labour Leaders – on BBC2 at 7.00pm. The reason for doing so was little to do with my rank as a Rust political correspondent, and rather to do with the fact there’s bugger-all worth watching [...]

Two media stories took my eye yesterday. The first was a report in The Times on the latest long term outlook issued by the Office for Budget Responsibility. [I would have wished to ‘link’ my readers directly to it, but I refuse no principle to pay the subscription in order to be able to do [...]

Yesterday I watched a Channel Four interview with an Italian member of an UN (or equivalent) human rights organisation complaining that EU countries were not doing enough to take refugees risking their lives fleeing from Syria/Libya or wherever to get to Europe and a new life. He didn’t mention [...]