Scottish Independence

The inevitable backlash

— The decision of the Supreme Court is a seismic and fundamental shift in the basis upon which Scotland is a part of the United Kingdom, a change which has been imposed on Scotland without consultation, consent, consultation or permission.

OPINION

Labour’s same old waffle on Lords reform

— Labour promising yet again to abolish the House of Lords is just more of the same old waffle, which will lead to an upper chamber which serves the interests of the government of the day.

OPINION

It’s Brexit, stupid

— We are stuck in the Tory game of make-believe that everything is coming up roses in an English country garden. The reality is that following Brexit the rest of the world looks at England with a mixture of perplexity, pity, and amused contempt.

OPINION

The state we are in 2022

— With the Conservatives in government, the UK is very firmly on a trajectory to more cruelty, more demonisation of the poor, the weak, and the vulnerable.

COMMENT

Braverman’s brutal Britain

— It’s not May, Johnson, Truss, or Sunak that is the problem, it’s the entire detestable lot of them.

OPINION

The Tory lettuceship contest

— Party still comes before country and constituents and democracy to the Conservatives. The Tories would do anything now, including giving Boris Johnson another go at being PM, to avoid annihilation in a General Election.

OPINION

Preparing to win the next UK General Election

— It is safe to say now that the Conservative party has made a catastrophic mistake by choosing Liz Truss as its leader and as Prime Minister.

OPINION

Rats in a sack

— It’s all going so terribly well, isn’t it? Liz Truss is living down to expectations that she would prove to be the next worst Prime Minister in living memory and is doing so in spectacular style.

OPINION

The Great Tory Merdefest

— Liz Truss finally made a public appearance after keeping quiet for a week while her government burned down the economy, trashed the pound, and threatened to tank pension funds.

OPINION

Truss’s dead cat splat

— If Liz Truss can do this much damage in 2 days, God knows what she can do in 2 years.

OPINION

Is it safe yet?

— Britain has become an insane, cruel and callous place which makes the poor pay so that the energy companies can rake in billions, a sclerotic polity which is well on the way to full-blown authoritarianism.

OPINION

Notes from Normal-island

— As millions worry about keeping food on the table or keeping their homes warm, and thousands of businesses are facing collapse, people are not just mourning the Queen, they are mourning the Britain that the Conservatives have destroyed.

UK Politics

The shortest political honeymoon in history

— With the election of Liz Truss, the right-wing British nationalist extremists of the ERG are now in charge of the UK. The Tories have completed their transformation into Ukip.

OPINION

Liz Truss’s Conservative chip pan fire

— The Conservatives promised that their Brexit would deliver sunlit uplands, what they are delivering is unlit slum lands.

OPINION

Truss is a gift to the cause of Scottish independence

— Boris Johnson is a liar and a cheat but like all successful con artists, he is basically a showman. Even so, the people of Scotland proved immune to his charms. Liz Truss’s problem is that she has no charm at all.

OPINION

This is a cost of corporate greed crisis.

— What we are facing is not a cost of living crisis, it is a cost of corporate greed crisis. Ordinary households are suffering while a small minority become rich on the backs of their misery.