Picking at the carcass of the local elections, one faction in British politics is on hand to guide the way for the Labour Party. As the results trickled in, with news Labour had lost Hartlepool for the first time since the seat was created in…
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First published on January 20, 2020, on Medium Amid the good humour of Labour’s first leadership hustings in Liverpool on Saturday, an unwanted guest stalked the proceedings and threatened to ruin the party: At the back of the hall in the Arena and Convention Centre, apparently undetected…
First published on December 17, 2019, on Medium The British people have spoken, and it’s quite a verdict. Given the choice between Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour and a clown driving a bulldozer, they chose the clown. Whatever the believers say on Twitter or in their opinion columns,…
First published on November 25, 2019, on Medium “All the promises will be broken.” — Bruce Springsteen, Thunder Road Tis the season for national folly, as the electoral tradition of Labour and the Conservatives trying to bribe voters with their own money reaches new levels of…
First published on October 21, 2019, on Medium It’s one of the great ironies of our time that the political actors who claim the mantle of popular revolt are the ones most openly at the service of power. This is perhaps to be expected of the…
First published on November 7, 2019, on Medium Election season is upon us, and the United Kingdom finds itself caught between a crank and a headcase. It’s hard to imagine a more insulting choice of candidates for Prime Minister. So why are people so intent…
First published on July 16, 2019, on Medium For the true believer, Wednesday’s Panorama into Labour anti-Semitism is unlikely to shake their conviction that the whole issue has been cooked up by Mr Corbyn’s enemies. The show’s main interest for the rest of us is its offering…
This article was first published in Quilliam Journal on May 3rd, 2019. These are the times that try men’s patience. Sample the following from an email sent by the National Union of Journalists to their members about an upcoming event: “Lyra McKee was murdered doing…
This article was originally published on politcs.co.uk on February 12th, 2019. The row over a ‘no-confidence’ vote on Luciana Berger last week was just the latest sordid episode in the Labour party’s identity crisis. What set this one apart was the context, with several Labour…
In the 1962 film The Music Man, con artist Harold Hill dupes and fleeces River City, Iowa, using only his charm and wit. Jeremy Corbyn has managed to do the same to the Labour Party with neither. Corbyn’s total mastery of the party is clear…