Hello Margaret, Goodbye, SDLP?

The decision to elect Margaret Ritchie MLA leader of the Social, Democratic and Labour Party is the decision which will destroy the party. To be fair, the choice was between a political operator at turns smooth and utterly unsophisticated whom many in the party...

Kaminskigate

I had a protracted Twitter conversation with @ijclark last evening about Micha? Kaminski, the leader of the new anti-federalist European Parliamentary group. The main bone of contention seems to be the allegation that Mr. Kaminski is an anti-semite and, by extension,...

Labour’s politics of class hatred Part 1

A tory council in England is [was vaguely] considering whether it can [could] make arrangements to fund the places in private schools of pupils whose parents might lose their jobs. Labour politicos are trying to use this as a political football.  Let’s be clear...