The real villain in the reshuffle is Seamus Milne. Benn should have made a principled resignation not become a lame duck
- 6 Jan 2016
The real villain in this shambles of a reshuffle is not Jeremy Corbyn but his press secretary Seamus Milne. It’s not surprising that he is known in the lobby as shameless. Corbyn should have taken a lesson from the Margaret Thatcher playbook. She inherited a shadow cabinet who...
This cut of 19% of Short money is politically inept, morally bankrupt, doomed to fail and makes the Tories look like vindictive bullies rigging the democratic process
- 2 Jan 2016
It is not often that I look at a government decision and roll my eyes heavenward in disbelief and horror at the sheer mind boggling stupidity of it. But the wheeze to cut the money given to opposition parties to fund their scrutiny of the executive by any amount, let alone 19%...
Cronyism, dishonest journalism the honours system and why Crosby deserves a Dukedom
- 31 Dec 2015
What has happened to the Independent apart from selling less copies than Goldfish Weekly? This was the paper which was to break the mould and put professional, impartial journalism at its core. That’s why it was called the Independent. But read today’s splash with care. “Almo...
Unless Cameron is replaced by Boris Diane Abbott has a better chance of growing a penis than Labour ever winning an election
- 30 Dec 2015
One of the many joys of commenting on British politics is to wallow in its inherent contradictions. Jeremy Corbyn has been accused of being weak and lacking leadership for allowing his shadow cabinet a free vote over military action in Syria, yet David Cameron is being urged t...
President Erdogan of Turkey presents a terrible dilemma for the West
- 29 Dec 2015
If August is the silly season for journalists desperate to fill pages with surfing squirrels and singing dogs, the Christmas to New Year dead space, where hung over journalists attempt to titivate a comatose nation with quizzes and stories that would normally never see the lig...
Trump, Hopkins Stop the War & Momentum have one thing in common; intolerance
- 12 Dec 2015
I wonder what Donald Trump sees when he gazes lovingly into the mirror. I suspect it is a young, slim, virile leader of men who has the courage to say what most people really think. Oh, and with a dashing mane of hair. The poor fellow. If only he knew what we see. An overweigh...
Osborne vagazzled McDonnell's cunning stunt of praying in aid a massmurdering psychpath who forced Britain's largest investor to live in a cave
- 26 Nov 2015
George Osborne’s reputation is a bit like Katie Price’s derrière; it’s looking peachy but over the years it has taken one hell of a pounding. Yesterday George vagazalled John McDonnell’s cunning stunt of praying in aid a Chinese psychopath mass murderer who forced one of Brita...
It's time the public realised what a ruthless money grabbing bunch of bastardsthe BMA are
- 20 Nov 2015
The Paris massacre coupled with the numbing inadequacy of Jeremy Corbyn has overshadowed another disaster engulfing another Jeremy. The junior doctors threat of striking over pay. If this was as a result of one of those omnishambled Treasury wheezes to cut public expenditure, ...
It's time the REMAINERS came out fighting. Send for Major
- 12 Nov 2015
The out campaign have got themselves in a bit of a mess again. Still warring over who is to be their public face with Fromage hissing and spitting like a cornered cat and Aaron Banks as swaggeringly arrogant as he is deeply unpleasant, a complex intellectual conundrum is confo...
Goodbye Charlie. The nation loved you, your party shafted you and your voters destroyed you
- 3 Nov 2015
I have just been to pay my respects to my dear old friend Charlie Kennedy at St Georges Cathedral in Southwark. Built to the glory of God and an homage to Rastafarian mock gothic. The good, the great and the not so great joined hands to see the great man off. There was a delig...