Suella Braverman is leading a campaign to reduce immigration, furious that former Home Secretary Suella Braverman permitted a massive increase. Some people think immigration is a good thing, some think it is a bad thing. I am mostly in the good camp. There is a very obvious reason why the UK has immigration. The UK… Read More Why did Brexit increase immigration | Post war immigration statistics
I hadn’t intended to post a blog this weekend, but the events of the last week have been without precedent in British politics On Monday Suella Braverman sent a letter to the PM resigning from a job she was sacked from a few hours earlier. This was part of a bizarre cabinet reshuffle which saw… Read More What Just Happened? | Suella De Ville
Recently I wrote about the link between authoritarian populist, politics and declining life expectancy. One of the factors I didn’t look at was the impact of banning abortion and the repeal of Roe Vs Wade. Even before the repeal of Roe Vs Wade Republican controlled states, mostly in the South, introduced increasingly draconian laws to… Read More Births of Despair | Abortion, birthrate and authoritarianism
The last few weeks have seem damning testimony to the official Covid inquiry. Johnson and his team are revealed as incompetent, uncaring, misogynist and totally unaware of how far out of their depth they are. A bunch of over promoted, under-talented posh boys who thought that running the country required the same skills as a… Read More Covid Inquiry | Much worse than you think
“The Russian soul is a dark place.” Angus Deaton has a new book out. Not the disgraced former presenter of Have I Got News for You, but the Nobel prize winning Economist. Deaton was the first person to use the phrase “deaths of despair” to describe the declining life expectancy of non-college educated white… Read More Deaths of Despair | Trump, Brexit, Putin and Dostoyevsky
In America the Republican Party are in a bigger mess than their British cousins. The Democrats control the White House and the Senate. The Republicans only control the lower house, and by a small margin, after a disappointing showing in the mid terms. That poor showing was largely due to selecting pro-Trump candidates who repelled voters.… Read More What just happened? | American edition
In case you missed it right wing populist politics just took a bit of a duffing up this week. The British Government lost 2 by-elections in one day – Tamworth and Mid-Beds. Both were safe Tory seats. If these results were replicated at a General Election* the Conservatives would be the 4th largest party … Read More What just happened? | By-elections
Apologies for no videos of bad dancing or chaos. Sadly Labour were far to well organised for shit like that. Starmer may not have sealed the deal with voters, but he has finally won over his own party. They may not love him, but they are united behind the Labour leader for pragmatic if not… Read More Labour Party Conference | So that is where all the Tories ideas went