We learned something important from Jeremy Corbyn’s interview with Andrew Neil: The Labour leader wants to be Prime Minister and will do whatever it takes. His soppier critics often announce their sympathy for a man who would be much happier on the backbenches. Do not believe a word of it. Listen instead to what he told the BBCContinueContinue reading “The three lies that Jeremy Corbyn told Andrew Neil”
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The Labour Party knew what Corbyn was, and they made him leader. Now the country knows
The security services are a rum lot. All that intrigue gets to you eventually, and that’s not counting those who sign up with less than laudable intentions. Harold Wilson was paranoid but not necessarily wrong. So when Jeremy Corbyn’s MI5 file finds its way onto the front page of the Daily Telegraph, even those notContinueContinue reading “The Labour Party knew what Corbyn was, and they made him leader. Now the country knows”
Ten Labour MPs that Tories should vote for
The Conservatives are going to win the election — that much we know. The question is what kind of opposition Britain is going to be left with. If a slew of moderate Labour MPs are swept out, the Corbynite grip on the party will strengthen. The leader will not go and Labour will take aContinueContinue reading “Ten Labour MPs that Tories should vote for”
The one question Theresa May should ask Labour voters — in order to win them over
Prime Minister, I have good news and bad news. The good news is that you have been denounced in the letters page of the Daily Telegraph. One correspondent huffs: ‘I wonder if Theresa May and her small group of advisers closeted in Westminster are aware of the fact that each initiative they introduce in anContinueContinue reading “The one question Theresa May should ask Labour voters — in order to win them over”
Labour’s manifesto reveals one thing: the Left has run out of ideas
Just when you thought things couldn’t get any worse for Labour, Noam Chomsky goes and endorses Jeremy Corbyn. ‘If I were a voter in Britain, I would vote for him…He’s quiet, reserved, serious, he’s not a performer,’ Chomsky told the Guardian. But the more you read of Chomsky’s endorsement, the more you wonder if heContinueContinue reading “Labour’s manifesto reveals one thing: the Left has run out of ideas”
The boring mystery of Theresa May
Theresa May spent the weekend in Scotland and not even the civilised bit. The Prime Minister was posted to the wilds of Aberdeenshire, which are handsome and underpopulated but not exactly a commuter hub. Journalists grumbled about the remoteness of the location, well aware that inaccessibility was the point. May has not been campaigning inContinueContinue reading “The boring mystery of Theresa May”
The cruel hounding of Tim Farron is bloodsport for secularists
For the benefit of Sky News, standard Christian doctrine says gay sex is a sin. It’s the sin that gives sinning a good name. There ought to be a stewards’ inquiry into why it didn’t make it into the Ten Commandments. But, yes, it’s one of those trespasses we ask to be forgiven. Sky’s DarrenContinueContinue reading “The cruel hounding of Tim Farron is bloodsport for secularists”
Voting Green is about feeling morally superior to lesser mortals
In this, as in all things, Paul Keating was right. It was the former Aussie Prime Minister, a Beethoven of political invective, who called his country’s Green Party ‘a bunch of opportunists and Trots hiding behind a gum tree trying to pretend they’re the Labor Party’. Keating’s acid scherzo could apply just as readily toContinueContinue reading “Voting Green is about feeling morally superior to lesser mortals”
Len McCluskey’s hollow victory
Len McCluskey has seen off a challenge to be elected to a third term at the helm of Unite. And what a seeing off it was. When the votes starting to come in, and reportedly showed the top two contenders neck-and-neck, McCluskey’s rival was promptly suspended. Gerard Coyne was stripped of his duties as West MidlandsContinueContinue reading “Len McCluskey’s hollow victory”
Theresa May is right to say no to a TV debate
I worked on the first TV debate of the Scottish referendum. I was involved in countless more. I was to be found on the production team for televised clashes during the 2015 general election and the 2016 vote for Holyrood. So I speak with some experience when I say TV debates are a terrible idea.ContinueContinue reading “Theresa May is right to say no to a TV debate”
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