Theresa May’s Epic Fail
- June 09, 2017
- by
- Matt
There are times when you can respect your political enemies and pay tribute to them for fighting for what they believe in, but this is not one of them. Because the humiliation of Theresa May is the humiliation of a politician who believed in nothing but herself, and was motivated by nothing but an utterly selfish determination to tighten her grip on power and perpetuate her party’s disastrous rule into the indefinite future regardless of the consequences.
Now the fairweather friends who flocked round her because they thought it would further their...
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...
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