Jog on, wrong’un.

Jog on, wrong’un.

When, aged 15, I joined the Conservative Party in the library of my school, I was aware of the reputation that would gather to me. I was boring, toryboy, I would be forever alone, my politics was more important than human interaction and, after all, I was joining the...

Hating politicians

Looking at Facebook and other social media, there has been a sprouting in recent years of angry, stupid websites dedicated to the breathless criticism of everything politicians and 'the political class' do.  Somewhere, in basements and bedsits around the UK, ignorant...

Ireland and the Universal Periodic Review

Ireland today subjected itself to the most palpably insane political process imaginable. Taking part in the UN's Universal Periodic Review, the Minister for Justice and Equality, Alan Shatter TD, faced questions from Ireland's peers, the nations of the world, on its...

UKIP if you want to…

“What is one to make of the rise of UKIP?” – asked nobody with any commonsense, ever. That having been said, there are plenty of people with no commonsense desperate to shrinkwrap a simple answer to the problem of the purple and yellow party (by remarkable coincidence...