It was all so well planned. There would be warning ads and commemorative coins to celebrate October 31st after Boris had won his great prize. But it was not to be. There has been no prize. Haven’t we been here before? Anyone remember Mrs May?
Read MoreLet’s be honest. Last night was a nail biting experience for everyone. For a while I thought that MPs might actually vote through the timetable motion against all the odds. But common sense won through. The vote was 322 to 308.
Read MoreWho are you kidding? Three days to scrutinize a Bill that will change everything for a generation? You must think we are all naive! It is quite obvious that this attempt to limit debate on Boris’s Bill is the act of a desperate man.
Read MoreWhat a morning! At about eight o’clock the DUP did what it does so well. It withstood Boris’s bluster and stood up for the united bit of the United Kingdom.
Read MoreYour man is in a corner and it’s a corner of his own making. That Domesday clock in his office is ticking ever louder. Twenty days and thirteen hours until Brexit ‘Do or Die'.
Read MoreDo you really think that people believe all this? Despite all the careful rehearsals, the ham acting, the assurances of inevitable success, the hesitancy, the ‘misspeaks’ and the constant flow of lurid allegations against Boris, the Big Lie goes on.
Read MoreI went up to Parliament yesterday. Or rather, to Parliament Square. It was a bright, sunny autumn day with white cumulous clouds towering above the Houses of Parliament. But this grand and proud institution currently lies under tarpaulin and scaffolding
Read MoreI believe it was Sophocles who once said that those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad. Well the first stage of that process has been reached. The Tory Party has gone mad.
Read MoreBoris Johnson has had his hair cut. I saw him on Wednesday with a standard issue short back and sides. He was talking about police and knife crime but it was his hair that sent the real message. No longer the eccentric and hirsute buffoonery of yore.
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