by The Editor | Jun 11, 2017 | Featured, International, Politics
To be Tangoed as the adverts used to go was to receive a shock to the system, often by a slap to the face. Which is exactly what Theresa May’s proposals for our future Government has been to the British electorate. You remember Donald Trump massaging his special...
by The Editor | Jun 11, 2017 | Politics
I know, I know, not another blog on what the hell happened on Thursday, and how did pretty much every “expert” get it so spectacularly wrong. I’m no professional pundit, but I do follow politics to an almost obsessive level. So I am lending my voice on what happened...
by The Editor | Jun 10, 2017 | Politics
The 2014 Independence Referendum and the Tory Blunders After Cameron blundered hugely: having actually signed a vow promising Scotland substantially extended devolution, the very day after the result, he turned around and retrospectively slapped conditions on it. The...
by The Editor | Jun 10, 2017 | Politics
Gavin Barwell’s book ‘How To Win a Marginal Seat‘ was heavily praised by top Tories as a textbook on effective campaigning: Boris Johnson wrote highly of the book: Unfortunately for poor Gavin such hubris didn’t help him on Thursday – he lost his marginal Croydon seat...
by The Editor | Jun 10, 2017 | Featured, Politics
By five o’clock this morning the disappointment of the Scottish independence movement online was palpable. We did not have a good night, but we did not exactly have a bad night either. Starting from a base of 56 of Scotland’s 59 Westminster seats – a share of 95 per...
