Why I’m voting Labour
- June 07, 2017
- by
- Matt
What a difference a month can make. When Theresa May broke her own pledge not to call an election I thought that yet another political calamity was about to unfold. The justification for the election was that parliament was ‘blocking Brexit’ and that a new mandate was necessary to allow May to negotiate...
The Terror Election
- June 04, 2017
- by
- Matt
From a strategic point of view terrorism has a dismal predictability. Whatever its context or motivation its central objectives are usually the same: a) to provoke a militarily more powerful opponent into an overreaction that will strain its opponent’s resources and draw it into a debilitating confrontation from which the terrorist hopes to gain in...
When the Brexit Bubble Bursts
- May 03, 2017
- by
- Matt
Individual folly is very different from political folly. When an individual acts in an openly self-destructive manner, or engages in behaviour contrary to his or her own interests or to those of the people around them, they are likely to get criticism or advice from their friends or family, or from other people who...
Mayday! Mayday!
- May 02, 2017
- by
- Matt
There are some politicians who look better from a distance, and Theresa May is definitely one of them. May and her advisors are clearly aware of this, and they have done their best to shield her anything approaching close scrutiny. They have refused to let her participate in political debates. In an absurd attempt...
What Kind of Country?
- April 25, 2017
- by
- Matt
Every society, no matter how sophisticated or ‘modern’ it thinks it has become, contains within itself the ability to go forward and backwards. All societies contain the potential for tolerance and intolerance; for generosity, openness, and empathy and also for mean-spirited callousness, arrogance,selfishness and cruelty. Every society includes people and communities that...
May’s Gambit
- April 19, 2017
- by
- Matt
Three years is a long time in politics, but for Theresa May, it clearly isn’t long enough. Only two days after telling the nation of her ‘sense’ that the country is ‘coming together’, the Vicar’s daughter has made it clear that she doesn’t want to remain in power until 2020: she wants to annihilate the...
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