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Sunday 31 December 2023

As the year ends it’s increasingly clear that nothing is working under this Conservative administration – from the NHS to railways, from the creaking justice system to impoverished schools, from the non-functioning regulatory system to our polluted coasts and rivers, everything’s worse. (It’s been suggested that it will take 10 years to clear the backlogsContinue reading “Sunday 31 December 2023”

Friday 22 December 2023

After the all too brief relief felt at Boris Johnson’s expulsion and the disastrous tenure of Liz Truss, many of us might have thought in October 2022 that we’d get more a more principled premiership from Rishi Sunak. Who’d have thought that we’d actually get an even worse brand of dishonesty and private profiteering, butContinue reading “Friday 22 December 2023”

Sunday 19 November

As the Middle East crisis rages on, causing political upheaval way beyond those borders, not to mention Ukraine, the UK is experiencing a constitutional crisis which has been building for some considerable time, yet it doesn’t seem to be acknowledged as such by politicians or the media, except somewhat in the Radio 4 Today podcast.Continue reading “Sunday 19 November”

Sunday 5 November

As we gradually emerge from the high winds and deluges of yet another storm, there’s sadly no sign of emergence from the Israel/Hamas conflict, the appalling Covid Inquiry revelations, further examples of Tory corruption and debates about AI and the much trumpeted AI Safety Conference. The police and politicians seem to be taken aback byContinue reading “Sunday 5 November”

Sunday 22 October

Whatever we think about the Israel/Hamas conflict (and views seem markedly polarized) it’s very noticeable how mostly one-sided the response from UK politicians, world leaders and the media has been. Many more Gazans have been killed in air strikes this week and the ground invasion hasn’t even started yet. And despite President Biden’s intervention inContinue reading “Sunday 22 October”

Monday 9 October

Most of us must be hoping now that we don’t soon have a full scale Middle East war brewing up. Here, in the UK….. What an absolute rollercoaster British politics has been during recent weeks, much of it intensely unsavoury and depressing, including the latest Tory (donor ‘Lord’ Bamford) being the subject of a threeContinue reading “Monday 9 October”

Sunday 3 September

Some Tories and their apologists in the media must be feeling relieved at the timing of the demise of former Harrods boss Mohamed Al Fayed and all the column inches and broadcast minutes that will absorb while they’re engulfed in the latest scandal about the faulty Raac concrete in our crumbling schools. The Department forContinue reading “Sunday 3 September”

Bank Holiday blogpost

Time is rushing on and as we approach the summer Bank Holiday, there’s no shortage of news so there’s zero excuse for the media resorting to Silly Season mode. Large numbers of migrants are still arriving here despite the government’s ‘small boats’ policy and, embarrassingly, Small Boats Week; ministers seized on what they present asContinue reading “Bank Holiday blogpost”

Sunday 13 August

August is traditionally known in the media as ‘the silly season’, compensation for the apparent lack of news coming in the form of reporting trivia. But despite most of our MPs including our PM remaining resolutely On Holiday despite the disasters unfolding around them there’s been no shortage of news, the main item of whichContinue reading “Sunday 13 August”

Sunday 30 July

You almost have to feel sorry for beleaguered PM Rishi Sunak – while his MPs swan off on holiday for weeks on end, he doggedly continues trying to defend his government’s terrible record despite most of the problems being of his own making. He’s been slammed for taking no genuine interest in green policies orContinue reading “Sunday 30 July”