Chrisgreybrexit

This is an unscheduled post because, for the first time in a long time, there has been an important development in the Brexit saga. In my most recent post I bemoaned the drift and decay which seemed to characterize British politics, not le...

Almost fifty years ago, my school report recorded that “he has lost his way and what is worse he does not appear to care”. It was, I still think, a rather unfair assessment but it is one which could with some justice be applied to the current political situation, as events of the last fortnight illustrate.

Reform’s mega-donations

The news o...

In the last fortnight we have had several scenes, different and yet related, of politics in post-Brexit Britain. Each of them is unpleasant in itself, but taken together, as pieces in a jigsaw, they reveal a very ugly picture. More than that, they reveal a picture of the profound dangers our country faces.

A walking sticks and some oysters

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Of the many ways of expressing how British politics has changed in my lifetime, one is that during the first fifty or so years of it there were seven Prime Ministers and in the subsequent ten years there have been the same number. I also happen to be exactly the same age as Nigel Farage who, for about half our lives, since he became a founder-member of UKIP in 1993, has been a m...