Boris Johnson Condemns Myanmar Coup, But Is Silent on Genocide

February 15, 2021

Within hours of last week’s Myanmar coup d’etat, the denunciations came pouring in. Britain began considering new sanctions. US president Joe Biden pledged action against the military l…

The Scottish Independence Movement Will Now Be Very Difficult to Stop

February 3, 2021

Opinion

Predictions of the break-up of the UK may be reaching a crescendo, but they are scarcely new. In 1707, Jonathan Swift wrote a poem deriding the Act of Union between England and Scotland, which had jus…

Brexit Was Johnson’s Churchillian Moment. So Britain Can Now Have Its Cake and Eat It?

January 15, 2021

Opinion

Britain got its independence back and got the best trade deal it could hope for with Brussels. Too good to be true? There was a great deal of bluffing on both sides, right up to the line. But the Brex…

2020 has been a Year of Classic Boris Johnson Buffoonery

December 31, 2020

Opinion

What with Covid, Brexit, almost dying and becoming a dad again, it’s been a big year for the British PM. Here are the past 12 months in his own verbose words… the very best (or worst) of BoJo in 2020.…

A Ship to Wreck? BoJo triumphant as Britannia leaves EU

December 28, 2020

Opinion

Boris Johnson’s picturing the finally agreed Brexit deal as some sort of bonanza for Britain is both wrong and misleading. As the devil is always in the details... So the deal has been agreed. This wa…

Boris Johnson is as Incompetent as General Haig at the Somme

December 22, 2020

Opinion

On 1 July 1916, the British Army attacked the German front line on the Somme in an ill-planned and over-ambitious offensive. Advancing soldiers were slaughtered by machine guns and artillery fire as t…

Arrogant Brits Want Cake and Eat It

December 19, 2020

Opinion

You have to laugh at Boris Johnson and his Brexit supporters who seem to live in delusions of grandeur about “Great Britain” as if it still has an empire “upon which the sun never sets”. The latest mo…

Sorry, Boris Johnson Will Not Disappear

December 10, 2020

Opinion

It is currently popular among those who make money writing media articles about politics, to argue that Boris Johnson will implode next year and be replaced as Tory leader by someone more rational and…