Tag: Boris
Two men in a pub: but it’s not one of those...
Two old men meet in a pub, me and the Founding Father of Voice of the North, David Banks. Actually, we didn’t, because we...
The vital misquote in Boris de Pfeffel’s Charge of the Shite...
POLITICS COMES IN DIFFERENT SIZED PACKAGES, big and small. In the larger package, you will find President Putin pronouncing western liberalism obsolete. In the...
Boris: will Britain really back a bouncing, bluffing buffoon?
Well, will it? Boris Johnson was a populist Mayor of London when, arguably, populism meant making people feel good about their city, and part...
Raising positive voices
My good friend and fellow blogger Keith Hann observed in a Tweet the other day that my last full blog for Voice of the...
Great news! We’re NOT leaving the EU! That Brexit thing was...
GREAT NEWS! Contrary to all you may have read or heard, Britain is NOT leaving the EU.
Brexit was all a bad dream. Like a...
Brexit debate now completely bananas
It’s not over yet: far from it. In fact we’re barely entering the final strait before the misery of the European referendum campaign, but...
No Nazis and no war scares – a polite guide to...
Jean and Peter Watts are a retired professional couple who live in Berwick-upon-Tweed. Before that they lived for some years in rural France. Both,...
Mavericks, nutters, but no true leaders
"Cameron is no Gandhi," wrote Keith Hann yesterday. He’s right! But who is a great leader in our time? So many disappoint. Meanwhile, those...
Government riven by impossible politicians
“Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” So says the White Queen to Alice as she makes her way...
