This last week, the end of August and start of September, is often characterised by a poignant change in the light, signalling the end of summer, returns to school, college and work and perhaps the necessity to face up to harsh realities which holidays can obscure. But there’s no sense of any new beginning inContinue reading “Sunday 4 September”
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Sunday 28 August
Even this time last week it would not have been too late for the government to heed the many calls for them to recall Parliament in order to urgently address the cost of living crisis, a large part of which is attributable to energy costs, but no. The dim-witted limpet-like attachment to laissez-faire ideology hadContinue reading “Sunday 28 August”
Saturday 20 August (shorter post)
As the UK continues to battle the combined effects of crises in the cost of living, energy supply, the water industry, the NHS and travel chaos continues with further transport strikes, it seems extraordinary that our prime minister departed for another holiday, Downing Street astonishingly declaring that he would only be contacted if ‘anything urgent’Continue reading “Saturday 20 August (shorter post)”
Saturday 13 August
Assailed, as we are on a daily basis, by news of deepening crises in the water and energy industries, in the NHS and cost of living, which put further downward pressure on our mental wellbeing, it surely beggars belief that we are expected to tolerate for weeks on end a ‘zombie government’ (in the wordsContinue reading “Saturday 13 August”
Sunday 31 July
Our politics this last week has been even less of an edifying spectacle than usual, with (Boris Johnson is said to have connived at this weeks ago) the two Conservative Party leadership candidates fighting like ferrets in a sack, only equalled, it seems, by their supporters and some in Whitehall briefing madly against one orContinue reading “Sunday 31 July”
Saturday 23 July
So the would-be ‘king of the world’ has finally gone, deposed by those who supported him for so long for fear of losing their own seats…. but not so fast. It already appears that some commentators like Simon Jenkins could be right about this being too easy an assumption: during the deluded and unreal leadershipContinue reading “Saturday 23 July”
Sunday 10 July
Previous references in this blog to tumultuous and febrile times had nothing on what’s unfolded during the last week but the cumulative pile-on of the last few months would have caused many of us to feel that this was a defenestration waiting to happen. How the mighty have fallen – Boris Johnson, the would-be ‘kingContinue reading “Sunday 10 July”
Sunday 29 May
What a tumultuous fortnight it’s been, with pressure building prior to the publication of Sue Gray’s report, incriminating evidence emerging of even more illegal parties, rising concern over the cost of living crisis, the Prime Minister’s non-apology, the predictable ‘support package’ with windfall tax U-turn and Boris Johnson’s unilateral watering down of the Ministerial CodeContinue reading “Sunday 29 May”
Sunday 15 May
It’s been yet another action packed and febrile week in the news, not at all conducive to mental wellbeing, including Ukraine and Putin’s Victory Day Parade, the State Opening of Parliament and Queen’s Speech, the cost of living crisis, the Northern Ireland Protocol stand-off with the EU and stalemate at Stormont, not to mention theContinue reading “Sunday 15 May”
Sunday 8 May
As ever, a fortnight is a long time in politics and world events: much has happened to further bring the Conservative Party into disrepute, especially the Angela Rayner leg crossing saga, ‘Tractorgate’, which resulted in the resignation of porn viewing MP Neil Parish, and the High Court’s finding against the government on care home CovidContinue reading “Sunday 8 May”
Politics and mental health - the missing link? 