Félicitations, President Macron – Vive la Faux Révolution!
As the victorious President-elect Emmanuel Macron appeared in front of Le Louvre to address the Fifth Republic, it was conspicuously to the strains of Beethoven's 'Ode to Joy' – the…
Third Way
Forget Brexit academics – how many of them are Conservatives?
Government Whip Chris Heaton-Harris has sent a letter to all university vice chancellors asking for the names of academics lecturing on European affairs, with particular reference to Brexit. He also requested copies of all course material and access to online…
Brexit, pursued by a Blair
"This is the chase: I am gone for ever," proclaims the old shepherd Antigonus in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale, immediately before that most famous stage direction: 'Exit, pursued by a…
Calls for Jewish Labour Movement to be expelled from Labour Party
Where is Baroness Chakrabarti? Anybody seen or heard from her since she took the ermine? If you bump into her anywhere, could you please tell her that she urgently needs…
Donald Trump: the triumph of political incorrectness over incorrect politicalness
Unless the GOP does something silly – like steal the nomination in a contested convention by engineering a last-minute coup – it looks as though Donald Trump will be…
Corbyn courts the churches, but Labour loathes Christianity
Can you imagine what it must be like to be a Labour MP at the moment? It’s like the scruffy kid at school who doesn’t make friends easily and…
Clerics for Corbyn: Bishop of Willesden comes out for 'Alice in Wonderland' politics
Pete Broadbent, Bishop of Willesden, has joined the Rev'd Giles Fraser and finally come out for Jeremy Corbyn. This is that same Jeremy Corbyn of whom Tony Blair says…
Peter Mandelson plots to subvert democracy: the arrogance of the political elite
When the Italian social scientist Vilfredo Pareto observed the political revolutions and machinations by which presidents are overthrown and regimes fall and rise, he coined a phrase which has…
Christianity is the key to redeeming Capitalism
The Christian think tank Theos has quite a remarkable knack of producing reports that are both thorough and of an incredibly high quality. I've repeatedly covered their work over the last few…