Month: November 2018

The first thing to observe about the current political situation in Britain is that it is incredibly difficult to predict. At every point of the mathematical decision tree, there are unknowns and strange distortions (more of that later). So the starting point for us, like Sophocles, is this: the only thing we know is that… Continue reading A glimmer of sunlight for Britain and for Labour

You will recall how, a few months ago, a certain party leader furiously denied, then in the end implicitly accepted, that he laid a wreath at the grave of Palestinian terrorists: essentially in the face of overwhelming evidence that he did just that. Thanks to the painstaking work of some ordinary folk, as well as… Continue reading The tragi-comic end of Wreathgate is a timely reminder of how far British politics has fallen