So, in comes the next Prime Minister, unelected but crowned. The big question is, how will Rishi Sunak get on? Will he fail spectacularly, grovelling to the demands of the back bench crackpots, or will he take the party kicking and screaming out of the 20th Century and away from its imperial delusions?
The Positive of Useless Predecessors
The positive for Sunak is that he is following Liz Truss. Truss
was the final act in a game where ...
As the populist division of the Tory Party collapses, it should be time for the British public to reflect. People who say, “I don’t do politics”, need to look at themselves, be brave, and ask why they fall for politicians that offer simplistic red-meat solutions to complex questions.
The Unraveling
That’s how we ended up with Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng. It all started unraveling when Cameron’s government was chased out ...
I only ever experienced being in a union once. It was at the
AWE when it was the Civil Service. I was only 18 so I didn’t really know or
care what a union was. All that I knew was that there was to be a strike and my
boss, Anne, disapproved. I didn’t like her, so I went on strike, which involved
turning up to a meeting for an hour, then having a half day.
Workers Rights
Thereafter, up until I set up my own business, any protection I ...
I was imagining the other day what it would be like to
work in customs when the law about checking passports changed. When I used to
go to France a fair bit, you just had to hold your passports up, barely braking
as you did so. If there was a queue building, they hardly bothered even looking.
Stamping Passports
Now they must mess about stamping the passports one by
one. If a family of five are going on holiday, what a ball ache that must ...
Over the last few days of record-breaking temperatures, much has been mentioned (mainly by older folks who think they’re hard) about the famed summer of 1976. I was eight at the time and the only thing I really remember is my mother doing some bizarre pagan like dance when it rained. Oh, and the smell of the rain on dry surfaces. Even when I smell that now, it takes me back to that summer.
False Comparisons
Comparing the summer of 1976 ...
