Tag: Parliament
Merely threatening to bypass Parliament on Brexit places our democracy on...
More years ago than I care to remember, I was a very young school head appointed by what seemed to me a very experienced...
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...
A clarion call for consensus – but will politicians heed it?
If you thought last week’s strong showing for both the new Brexit Party and for the Liberal Democrats was merely a Eurocentric protest vote...
Learning to live with contradictions
It’s a topsy-turvy world nowadays. While our end of the continent is dominated by Brexit travails, everywhere else I look - near and far,...
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...
Post-truth, post-irony, but not post-hope
It's a popular view, something about which we Brits tend to joke incessantly, that Americans just don't get irony. I don't think it's true:...
