Labour Plotters: Stop your Sobbing
- June 30, 2016
- by
- Matt
I’m sorry to hear that some of the MPs who have turned on Jeremy Corbyn these last few days have been crying. Angela Eagle looks weepy every time she appears on tele, and now Margaret Beckett has cried on air It’s sad, but then there has been a lot of sadness and tears these last few days. Not amongst the Leavers of course, many of whom have been crowing about a victory that I suspect will turn out to turn more bitter than many of them suspected.
As we now know to...
Taking Our Country Back: Brexit and the Seeds of Hate
- June 27, 2016
- by
- Matt
There was a time, in the country that so many Brexit voters would like to take ‘back’, when it was commonplace to have signs in the windows of rented accommodation that read ‘no dogs, no Blacks, no Irish. ‘ We have spent decades moving away from the society where such discrimination was semi-respectable; ...
Freaky Friday
- June 25, 2016
- by
- Matt
In the Jamie Lee Curtis comedy Freaky Friday, a mother and teenage daughter wake up to find themselves trapped in each other’s bodies as a result of a magic spell. Yesterday I underwent a similar but even more disturbing transformation. On Thursday night I dreamt that Remain had won the referendum. Early on Friday...
Murder in Farageland
- June 19, 2016
- by
- Matt
The brutal murder of Jo Cox has added a seemingly random note of tragedy and horror to this appalling, dispiriting and utterly venal Referendum campaign. And the brave and dignified words of Cox’s husband and sister have only shown us how low we have allowed ourselves to sink during this wretched process.
Anti-intellectualism; complete disregard...
In the gutter with Boris and Nigel
- June 12, 2016
- by
- Matt
I don’t know if you’re enjoying the referendum readers, but I can tell you that I’m not. I can’t think of any national political process that has taken place in my lifetime that I’ve found so constantly dispiriting and depressing on an almost daily level. It now looks at least possible that Brexit...
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