Politics

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. [...]