The British are always claiming to have the best institutions in the world. The NHS, the British Army, the Mother of all Parliaments, whatever it is, whenever it was, Britain leads or led the world, or so the story runs. It is interesting to note Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, doubtless high on Neuro-Linguistic Programming,... Read More

“Pretty Vacant” is a song by the Sex Pistols. It inspired the Guardian columnist John Crace to invent the nickname “Priti Vacant” for the politician Priti Patel (born 1972), an Indian Hindu woman who’s high in the British Conservative party. Crace thinks she’s stupid. Apart from our shared passion for the mighty Spurs, I don’t... Read More

England is now a sectarian society. As of the General Election, on 4th July, some people are sent to parliament by specific religious and ethnic communities simply because they are members of those communities, not because of the policies they espouse. A system which has long existed in sectarian Northern Ireland has now come to... Read More

The two seismic elections of 2016, Donald Trump’s Presidential victory and the British “Brexit” referendum, were linked by the common thread of a phenomenon they served to expose. Trump’s win and the ensuing resistance in his own administration showed the existence of a “deep state” that could be mobilized against an undesired political outcome in... Read More