Tag: Brexit
WHY I QUIT MY GOVERNMENT JOB OVER BREXIT. . . by...
I WAS SORRY TO READ Neil Fowler’s opinion that I should not have resigned as a Government PPS, but I stand by my decision to...
All over bar the shouting? If only!
It’s all over bar the shouting: that well-known expression suggests everything’s done and dusted, whatever will happen will happen, and anything else is mere...
Brexit: total catastrophe or timely cure for obesity?
Social media has become a global echo chamber that hugely magnifies our collective unhappiness. Where once we might have grumbled to our neighbours in...
Just a game of Chequers. . .
A former Liberal Democrat town councillor and still an active party campaigner, PETER WATTS is perturbed at what he sees as confusion and obfuscation apparent in...
Retired again, un-hired again: I won’t ever feel quite so tired...
Retired again, un-hired again: I won’t ever feel quite so tired again.
Bemused, bothered and bewildered am I!
Hum to yourself that modified text of one...
What a beautiful day – for a spot of positivity.
“What a beautiful day…..”
What a beautiful day for filling your trousers with ice-cream, sticking a cherry on your head and saying, “How’s that for...
If only Brexit came flat-packed like an IKEA bookcase!
THE DEATH, AT THE GRAND OLD AGE OF 91, of IKEA founder Ingvar Kamprad should say something about Brexit. Oh, if only the endlessly complicated...
Crumbs! The day the Brexit booby forgot the biscuits
EXCLUSIVE! Our intrepid political correspondent PETER MORTIMER reveals an actual transcript of a Downing Street Brexit meeting. . .
(Present: Theresa May, David Davis, Ian...
UK politics: touching the void?
I’m not a mountaineering enthusiast, nor a fan of books or movies about it. But I've always been struck by the power of the...
Wrong choices in a world turned upside down
Have we now turned our political world upside down? I only ask because we appear to be making so many wrong choices.
Currently UK politics...
