Some thoughts on curried yoghurt

Gregory Campbell, MP and MLA for Londonderry East, enjoys courting controversy on dog-whistle issues in Northern Ireland. He’s good at it – he’s got a lot of wit and can be genuinely funny, but there is a bite and a bitterness to his politics which...
Ed Miliband’s Conference Speech

Ed Miliband’s Conference Speech

Friends, I am so delighted to be here with you in Manchester, the constantly shifting capital of our changing Britain. I want to discuss an important issue today – change. Change for the better. Change for prosperity. Change for our country’s well off,...
UK to EU – Can we still be friends?

UK to EU – Can we still be friends?

The European Commission has finally realised that the long-term sexless relationship between the UK and the federalist project is over.  We’re still meeting for coffee but not ordering cake anymore.  We’re returning each other’s messages but there...

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...
How do you solve a problem like gobshites?

How do you solve a problem like gobshites?

That the newspapers have been keen to hoist Maria Miller, the minister responsible for the shepherding the press regulation legislation from a lamppost for continuing to claim a level of expenses on a mortgage after a favourable change in the lending interest rate is...