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The idea that Labour's problems can be solved by a change of face at the top are deluded. If Corbyn were leader, Lab would be getting thumped even harder in

Screw you @xr_cambridge. My wife - who gave birth 10 weeks ago and is venturing out for rare 'me time' while I look after the baby - is going to

It seems to me that opinions that would have marked you out as an enlightened liberal 30 years ago - indeed, 10 years ago - are now being castigated as

Conservatism, in search of a political economy, made a deal with the devil that is liberalism as a tactical anti-socialist move. Problem is that the cold hard water of liberalism

What this reveals is that most rentagob 'progressives' can only see history through a heady fug of anachronism. All historical experience has to be squashed into their impoverished secular-modernist perspective

Progressive 'lefties' make a profound historical error. They think that the working class and the poor hated their nation and wanted to destroy it. They're dead wrong. The working class

I see the Church of England has released its latest strategy for oblivion, sorry, managed decline, sorry 'revival':-Double down on all the things that are failing miserably- Cross our fingers

A vocal part of the far left wants open borders; doesn't believe in national citizenship; & indeed would abolish the nation state. In doing so, they would destroy the only

My view of Macron has gone up about 20 fold in the past few days. I think he and the French, for all their faults, are one of the few

It's increasingly clear that radical ID politics - esp on 'gender'/trans issues - is an attempt to erase class from the heart of left politics. The new 'woke' radicals, who

What is the most ridiculous or heretical sermon you have had to endure at a Church of England service?I will start. The one where the Resurrection was stated to be

A political economy which involves many children going hungry is fundamentally broken. Debating whether the government should feed them misses the underlying issue. Building a fairer and more solidaristic economy