Was that period perfect? Of course not. Bad things happened, poverty existed, governments screwed up, and there were wars and reversals and crises. But the general trend was for increased wealth, health, life expectancy, security, openness, home-ownership, saving, disposable income,… Read More ›
Politics
The humbling of Britain
This is not “taking back control”. This is not the proud, independent, liberated Britain that the Brexiteers promised. It is grotesque, calamitous, an epic act of self-harm brought about not by some war or disaster but by our own stupidity…. Read More ›
The obscene moral spectacle of Theresa May’s resignation
What an abominable circus. It’s hard to know where the greater blame should be put. On the prime minister who has made her own eradication a bribe to force through the product of her failure? Or the great defenders of… Read More ›
The Fox News White House
Hannity was treated in Texas like a member of the Administration because he virtually is one. The same can be said of Fox’s chairman, Rupert Murdoch. Fox has long been a bane of liberals, but in the past two years… Read More ›
Why the UK cannot see that Brexit is utterly, utterly stupid
Instead there has emerged one justification for reducing real wages, for allowing our economy to lose over 2 per cent of its GDP, to allow firms to make and enact plans to leave the UK: the 2016 referendum. People voted… Read More ›
No imaginable route of escape from the Brexit straitjacket
Mrs May’s manoeuvring is about stifling – rather than giving – voice to antagonisms in her party. The same can be said of Labour’s Jeremy Corbyn. His party is also divided over how to proceed over Brexit, with the membership… Read More ›
We got through the war and we’ll get through this
A MAN born more than three decades after the Second World War is acting like he flew Spitfires against the Luftwaffe. Martin Bishop, 41, from Lincoln, has declared that ‘we got through the war, and we will get through Brexit’… Read More ›
A broken system
The problem of free work is getting worse as the UK’s freelance army grows. The number of self-employed people in the UK has increased from 3.3 million in 2001 to 4.8 million in 2017, according to the ONS, contributing the… Read More ›
Brexit is a lie
May’s defeat should dispel any illusion that there is a happy ending to the Brexit story. The truth of the matter is that the project that defined May’s premiership — negotiating a Brexit deal acceptable to both the EU and… Read More ›
The Best Men Can Be?
I’ve been shaving since I was 12, since the beginning I used Gillette because that’s what my father used, now I will never use it again, and neither will my father, collectively been your customers for 50+ years never again… Read More ›
McGST 