The revolution will not be televised
Remember ‘Boaty McBoatface’? The previous shining example of the will of the people being left to its own devices and conspiring only to make a complete arse of itself. Imagine RRS ‘BoatyMcBoatFace' hitting an iceberg (not hard, it’s an icebreaker) and, as the vessel...
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Bonfire of their vanities
“We need to rid ourselves of the burden of bureacracy and red tape that holds back business and entrepreneurs.” How often do we hear this cliché whenever a leading Brexiteer gets on their pulpit to promise free-trade nirvana? But it’s worth considering what all this...
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I’m terribly sorry, Mrs. May, but I hardly believe a word you say
I can’t decide on metaphors for Brexit at the moment. Sometimes I think it’s like a bus being driven by a bunch of drunks who are fighting to take a turn at the wheel, oblivious to the fact that they’re careering the wrong way up the motorway. In the dark. Without any...
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Cometh the hour, cometh the Pencil!
Theresa May’s lonely walk across a dark, windswept Downing Street was a potent symbol of the extent to which she is now a hostage to events she cannot control. Instead of making the Brexit deal announcement from inside the Cabinet Room, surrounded by the collective,...
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The last hurrah. But nobody is cheering
It’s hard to believe that there was ever a time before Brexit, when progressives like myself would routinely rail against the bad faith and dishonesty of the Tories and their blasted austerity policy. But yesterday’s Budget rolled back the clock to the...
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España en la casa
Al final, España en la casa. For all those who worried about the England manager’s judgement in kind of, sort of, with best intentions, managing to lose the dead rubber against Belgium, it now appears to be a masterstroke. Because even allowing for the traditional...
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