Random Views

It’s not often you get the chance to make a gesture of refusal, however small, to the Trumpists, Brexiters and other xenophobes.  A recent...

General Election time.  When the notion of “foot soldier” truly comes into its own. It ’s the time when  we of the Labour Party infantry t...

What an iconic image the first multi-racial elections in South Africa left us. Do you remember the pictures of the queues snaking around the...

“Any delay in the ranks of the left exposes us, at the very least, to a further advance by the far right, which will further reduce the soci...

Birds of a feather flock together, they say. Or to put it the way the French do, tell me who you hang out with, and I’ll tell you who you ar...

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

In Britain, we proclaim the sanctity of “national values”. These are wonderful things, like tolerance and respect for the views of others. S...

Generalissimo Francisco Franco, who held dictatorial power over Spain for just shy of forty years up to 1975, was born one 4 December (speci...

What a joy it is to see a people, saddled with a centralising, increasingly autocratic ruler, turn out and vote to stop him gathering still ...

We never seem to stop talking about immigration these days. And yet the real problem we face isn’t immigration – it’s precisely all that tal...

So now we’ve had the earthquake in Britain. UKIP topped the poll for the European elections. We know the worst, and we know its extent. A...

How tough life is in politics. It’s almost enough to make me feel sorry for politicians. Were it not for the fact that for every one that ge...