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“I think we were lied into an illegal war,” says Katharine Gun, excellently played by Keira Knightley in a film well worth watching, Officia...

Day 10. And Boris keeps giving the lie to Karl Marx, who talked about history repeating itself, first as tragedy and then as farce. With Bor...

It’s said that one of the worst problems with having your back to the wall is that you can’t see the writing on it. Following the local el...

As we in the British Labour Party prepare for our next general election, on 8 June, it struck me as interesting to look at the others there ...

Many of those US blue-collar workers, the natural constituency of the Democratic Party, who voted for Trump were driven by anger and frustra...

Labour was warned in plenty of time, we’re told, that it was heading for a drubbing at the polls. According to the Guardian , James Morris, ...

There seem to be frequent reports at the moment of the death of the British Labour Party. I’m inclined to consider them greatly exaggerated....

I spent the first couple of hours after the BBC exit poll for the UK General Election was announced at 10:00 last night doubting its accurac...

With just a day to go before the British General Election, there are a whole series of seats which are promising us “Portillo moments.” The ...

Picture the situation. A series of curiously convenient deaths have left you on the threshold of power in your nation. You have only to step...

I t would appear that anxiety about the coming British General Election is intensifying in Tory ranks. That’s odd, because frankly they’re...

It shouldn’t be difficult to draw a line between disaster and mere irritation. And yet, oddly, there are many who seem incapable of telling ...

The last stage of a campaign is the most important, and with the British General Election three weeks away on 7 May, we’re into that last st...