In a rare departure from protocol and prudence both, White picks a fight – you have to sort the comments section by Recommendations to see this – with one of his many detractors. And gets trounced. As usual, we were … Read More »
This from Twitter yesterday …
In today’s Guardian, political editor Toby Helm anticipates the replacement of Hilary Benn and Maria Eagle in an imminent reshuffle by Jeremy Corbyn. Such a reshuffle, Helm tells us, would be “high risk”; one likely outcome being the resignation of … Read More »
Yup, Syria again. Hate to be a bore but there are worse things. Like conducting air strikes, in my name and yours, on yet another Muslim country based on a narrative so far-fetched in its fairy tale reductionism that those … Read More »
A few days before the December 2 Syria airstrikes vote I wrote to my MP, one Nick Clegg, to ask how he would vote. My email and his office’s reply are reproduced in full below. While I got an answer … Read More »
Benn’s Syria speech hailed as one of the finest in the Commons since WWII, screamed the Daily Mail in its kicker for an Andrew Pierce piece whose following line ran: Bookmakers have installed him as favourite to succeed Jeremy Corbyn. … Read More »
On one level – the parliamentary balance of forces – it made no difference to the outcome. Had every Labour MP opposed, and Tory rebels tripled, there’d still be RAF fighters over Syria today. We can’t know the thoughts of … Read More »
The Matthew Parris column in the Times yesterday – yup, Rupert’s Times – was headed, The Bombs-Away Brigade are on Autopilot. Its kicker ran thus: “Amazingly, Corbyn is right. The hawks just want to join a scrap with their mates … Read More »
Last night Channel 4 screened a documentary on Isis recruitment of British Muslim women. A young woman calling herself Aisha spends a year engaging Islamists, graduating from Twitter and FB through text and phone call to live meetings. She’s in … Read More »
Don’t we instinctively recognise the truth of Goering’s words? I began my last post but one by describing Corbyn’s response to the Paris question – would he endorse shoot to kill by special forces if even greater carnage might thus … Read More »