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If ‘Remain’ wins, what will really bug me is that David Cameron will take the credit for it. He will have been the saviour of Europe, a fitting successor to the great Ted Heath. Labour will get no credit, of … Continue reading →

By one way of looking at it, the vote on Thursday will be the latest in a long line of attempts by Britain to find the ‘role’ that she lost – as US Secretary of State Dean Acheson famously said … Continue reading →

Few of the world’s really awful events have been unexpected. For ten years before both the first and the second World Wars people were warning that something dreadful was about to happen. They might not have known what form exactly … Continue reading →

Yes, of course our democracy is in mortal danger. But not from the likes of Thomas Mair. Nor even from Brussels; or from the far Right or Left in politics; or from one of the foreign threats to it that … Continue reading →

It’s a small comfort, I know; but thank God it wasn’t a Muslim who murdered Jo Cox. Otherwise we wouldn’t hear the last of it from the Daily Mail. On that subject there’s an excellent piece in the Guardian this morning by … Continue reading →

Whatever we think of referenda generally, this really was a terrible time to hold one. Hardly anyone was really interested in the EU before now, apart from a few Tory obsessives. The rest of us had come to accept it, as … Continue reading →

Just a brief note on this guy. He’s in the news for claiming that the EU destroyed his Dad’s fishing business, when it didn’t. I was interested to learn that his father was in fishing; I always thought Gove’s face … Continue reading →

I’m told by my Swedish friends that the view over there is that Britain’s current referendum debate is showing her up as ‘the stupidest nation on earth’. This is not primarily because she’s thinking of leaving. Although they would like … Continue reading →

A good letter in today’s Guardian, referencing both the EU referendum and English football, with a nice historical angle. Once the feelings of shame and disgust have subsided (England and Russia fans clash before and after match, 12 June), one … Continue reading →

An exciting time to return to England – two greedy capitalists in huge trouble (Mike Ashley of Sports Direct, for exploiting his workers shamelessly and illegally; Sir Philip Green of BHS for probably robbing his failing firm’s pension fund to buy … Continue reading →