Thoughts after a funeral.

On the day Lady Thatcher died, people in Dublin spoke to me with worry on their faces, as if I might spontaneously combust or ascend back to my starship. “Here is a man”, they probably thought, “who is upset about the death of someone I thought was a...
A shambolic week for Labour.

A shambolic week for Labour.

That the Labour Party has no formulated policy response to the government’s welfare reforms was predictable – that Red Ed’s shadow cabinet and war-makers within Labour have so failed to provide an alternative narrative to the reforms other than...
Lessons from Philpott?  Unlikely, but let’s see.

Lessons from Philpott? Unlikely, but let’s see.

When George Osborne waded into the tragic case of the Derby fire deaths today, all eyes turned to the Chancellor of the Exchequer to identify a gaffe, an insensitivity or a slight.  When they didn’t detect one, they decided to make one up.  The Chancellor seems...