Month: March 2017

For weeks now, the party’s left has been whispering about a “soft coup”. Ah, the old Soviet tactic, much beloved of today’s Vladimir Putin: confuse things by accusing your opponents of whatever you are up to yourself. Oh, and make them feel under attack, so they close ranks. There is a coup going on, but… Continue reading The “soft coup” might be on, but it surely ain’t from the right

It was a cold February morning, when the Shadow Chancellor finally gave in to his demons and went “full conspiracy theory”. To be fair, he probably didn’t feel too well. Labour had just suffered a “historic” by-election defeat at the hands of the governing party, something unheard of in thirty-five years and with the biggest… Continue reading John McDonnell has finally lost it