by nabidana | Jan 8, 2025 | Featured, politics, The Culture, Uncategorized
One of the major problems of today’s 24 hour news cycle and social media knee-jerk ‘citizen journalism’ is the assumption that any problem is an essentially modern invention and that sex itself was invented last week. Alas, nothing is new under the sun, as any...
by nabidana | Sep 25, 2024 | Featured, Labour, Leader, politics, Uncategorized
Sir Keir Starmer, erstwhile Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, waded into the swamp he had helped create a few weeks ago and has had a torrid time trying to convince the media to pay attention to policy and not the gifting...
by nabidana | Sep 21, 2020 | Leader, Uncategorized
A casual observer could be forgiven for mistaking the current state of British and American politics as a little mismanaged at the moment. With two unconventional leaders, one might be surprised that their opponents equally fear being beaten again by them come the...
by nabidana | Nov 15, 2018 | Uncategorized
Theresa May wasn’t my first choice to lead the Conservative Party. I wanted David Cameron to face the responsibility of delivering Brexit after the referendum. I wanted him to come out to the podium the day after the referendum and say something like...
by nabidana | Dec 5, 2017 | Uncategorized
The Brexit deal which nobody with any commonsense expected to be reached yesterday fell partially because of a spooked DUP who saw the Irish press and commentariat crowing about an Irish diploamtic coup, and partially because of a concept which is not particularly new...
by nabidana | Oct 5, 2017 | Uncategorized
Either there’ll be a heave now or there’ll be a heave later. There doesn’t need to be. There’s still an opportunity for Theresa May to create a strong and stable cabinet and manage the process of negotiation and eventual departure at a time...
