There is a bit of a blitz this weekend from the Downing Street machine talking up the government’s determination to fulfil its mandate to reform and renew our country. Nobody doubts the good intentions. But the public, according to opinion polls, the majority, are now wondering whether Starmer can deliver. Neither does anyone doubt the […]
Initially it seemed to most people, certainly to me, that the new government was on the right track, but because Labour had been out of power for 14 years, it was politically rather clumsy and insensitive. The national insurance rise, the fuel allowance, the farmers and their death duties all came across as attacking the […]
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Not only is there now an exchange of missiles between Russia and Ukraine, but also a war of words about them and what might come next. This is a moment to step back and take stock. As regular readers know I have been against this war from the very beginning, because the end would never […]
Labour has made a mess of its farming inheritance tax idea. It is has backfired badly. At a time when the major priority should be to maximise home production of foods of all kinds, there should be a coherent plan to do so, with an enthused and re-energised farming community on side. Instead, the small […]
Welby was right to resign as Archbishop. Nobody could possibly support his earlier decision to stay on or believe his assertions he did not know years ago exactly what Smyth was up to and what went on in those youth camps when he, Welby, was present. Unfortunately this latest drama in the public life of […]
The election of Trump, not by some quirk of electoral college distribution, but with a popular vote majority, 312 EC votes, the Senate and likely the House, was unforeseen by everyone and a political earthquake for the West. Last time Trump’s Presidency began in chaos with no plan and very little understanding of how Federal […]
Nobody saw it coming, least of all Donald Trump. But an extraordinary coalition of Americans united to give him the very kind of power that he so admires in dictators. He has the Electoral College, the Popular Vote, the House, the Senate and the Supreme Court all with majorities in his favour. The world is […]
No. Or to soften that short dismissal, not as the government would have hoped either short or long term. And it will be very difficult for the Labour party in the country to explain. But there was good stuff, buried in the noise around fuel payments and death duties on farmland. There was for the […]
I would like to think yes but I am almost sure the answer is no. But what she looks as if she is going to do is to shore up the current model and make it function not as a drag on growth, which has been the case since the 2008 crash, but as an […]