Brexit… The Triumph of Optimism 25/07/201925/07/2019 This article began in the pub. The sun was shining upon North Cornwall and Wadebridge was looking lovely. Jon and I were sitting and discussing the election of Boris as…
Brexit… Michael Gove is an Honourable Man 10/06/201910/06/2019 There are a large number of characters from classical literature who have wielded the knife and slaughtered their own allies. Shakespeare’s plays alone produce several such charmers: Macbeth, Richard III,…
Brexit… The Modern Perils of Burke’s Bristol Speech 07/04/201908/04/2019 Update: This article has been re-published in Country Squire Magazine under the title "Let them Eat Cake". After the referendum and the General Election which followed it, both of the…
Brexit… The Post-Brexit Tory Doom 28/03/2019 In 1957, the newly appointed Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan, wrote a note to Michael Fraser, the director of the Conservative Research Department. “I am always hearing about the Middle Classes.…
Brexit… Signals of Contempt 21/03/201921/03/2019 Right. That's it. I've had enough. What follows may well turn into Jonathan Pie-type expletive-riddled rant. I make no apologies to those sensitive flowers who might read this article and…
Brexit… Theresa May’s Great Divide 13/02/2019 In the early part of 2019, it would appear that Theresa May (without any apparent effort) has effectively sundered the Conservative Party into two irreconcilable groups. The first group is…
Brexit… May’s Vichy Britain? 26/11/201826/11/2018 Thursday 15th November 2018 might perhaps go down in British political history as one to remember. More likely is that it will be remembered as only one of a series…
Brexit… Tory MPs and the UKIP Menace 25/09/2018 In an earlier article, I suggested that there is an impending electoral disaster for the Conservatives on the scale of the 1997 General Election - i.e. a potential loss of…
Brexit… A Landscape of Fear 24/09/201824/09/2018 First it was going to be outside in the street. The lectern was set up. The press pack were alerted. But it was only going to be two journos from…
Beyond Brexit… Chequers, steamrollers and the little matter of votes. 24/07/201824/07/2018 Three days after Theresa May had imprisoned the entire Cabinet at Chequers and unleashed Olly Robbins to administer a day-long punishment beating, I received an e-mail from my local Conservative…
