Failing to prepare is preparing to fail
Pre-pandemic, only someone inculcated against hearing accurate news about the NHS would not know how just parlous a state is it in. Never-events are now commonplace, often leading to deaths. [...]
Thank goodness that Johnson beat Corbyn
(For context, I type this blog just minutes after Johnson and Hancock have tested positive for COVID-19.) When the electorate cast their vote in December 2019, multiple factors influenced each [...]
Lock Them Up?
It’s a criminal offence to speed, because when you speed, you are a danger to others. It is a criminal offence to have unprotected sex, as a HIV carrier, if [...]
The Return of the State, and The State Strikes Back
All hail the State! All hail the State. Those of you who claimed that the only way to recover from the International Banking Crisis of 2008 was to cut, cut [...]
The gutsiest of decisions
As Premier League football is cancelled today – as well nearly every other large gathering – the Government has surprised us all by not electing to instruct the populace to [...]
The end of party politics?
Possibly. Today, in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, the Chancellor announced so many billions - or was it was trillions - of pounds of infrastructure projects that one would [...]
The politics of coronavirus: are right-wingers coronavirus sceptics?
(For context, I’m writing on the day that the international stock markets collapsed, at a similar level to the 2008 decimation, all because of COVID-19. Italy has just quarantined the [...]
Corbyn, Trump and the Cult
Politically, Corbyn and Trump are of course diametrically opposite. (I backed Corbyn in the leadership election of 2015: I was swayed by his political history and the inevitable avalanche of [...]
The Genius that is Capitalism
Like it or not, capitalism is genius. And all geniuses are flawed. In my favourite - though rarely-referenced - tranche of Marxism, Marx declares that, "Crime produces locks, jails, police, [...]
The Lords Resistance Army
Let me entertain you with an alcohol-caused, name-dropping anecdote. A few months ago, at the Labour Regional Conference in Leeds, at an hour well past Anne Widdecombe's bedtime, I was [...]
