Last week, Nigel Farage announced that a future Reform government would ban working from home. If that sounds familiar, it’s because you’ve heard it before. Boris Johnson floated the same idea four years ago. Same rhetoric. Same applause lines. Same fatal flaw. Reform supporters bristle when critics describe the party as a retirement home for … Read more
In case you hadn’t noticed, The Telegraph has gone bonkers. Completely batshit. Once, it was the grown-up voice of British Conservatism — stiff upper lip, officer class, snobbish but sensible. Now it prints provably false nonsense in a tone of shrieking hysteria designed to farm clicks, likes, and shares. In the last year alone, The … Read more
Lockdown: Five Years On Five years ago, we were at the start of the COVID-19 lockdown. I don’t think anyone is throwing an anniversary party. Boris Johnson’s speech announcing a temporary lockdown was broadcast on March 23, 2020, and came into effect on the 26th. I watched it in the pub, knowing already that I … Read more
Last week I published a very slightly tongue in cheek blog about how the Conservatives might change the outcome of the next election. I hope you don’t mind another one before we get back to serious stuff. On Easter Sunday 2024 The Sunday Telegraph front page has a scoop. Boris Johnson is the new leader of … Read more
This weeks Queens Speech introduced us to another bad idea. Voter ID. On the surface this seems pretty straight forward – why not force people to show ID to vote? Most people have ID, and lots of people (including me) carry it with them every day. Whats the problem? To understand why it is such … Read more
This is Boris as a newly elected PM 18 months ago telling the world that he had a plan to fix the crisis engulfing residential and domiciliary care for older people. Since then we have had no plan, and now there is an announcement in this weeks Queens speech that “Proposals on reforms to social … Read more
This is the current position with death rates between the EU and the UK. As we can see we are currently doing incredibly well reducing the numbers of deaths, numbers are falling much faster here than in the EU. This is mainly due to the strict lockdown rather than the vaccine, although we can expect … Read more
Just when we thought Kickstart couldn’t get any worse, we have been told that we are not allowed to take part in Kickstart at all, 6 months after it was announced. This apparently is the case for most small businesses. For those who haven’t been following the story Kickstart is an employment subsidy for under … Read more
All of the focus of the last week in politics has been the storm around A level results. This is without doubt one of the most shambolic situations any Government has found itself in, one which has no easy way out. The only positive thing I can take from it is that the 6th formers … Read more
Munira Mirza has been appointed to lead the Governments inquiry into racism in Britain. While she is little know outside of political circles her appointment has caused widespread shock. Mirza doesn’t believe that institional racism exists, and is a strong defender of Boris Johnson comments about letterboxes and watermelon smiles. This is typical of her … Read more