Theresa May is in meltdown, Brexiteers (hard and soft) are enraged and kerflummoxed and Remainers are tearing their hair out, with Project Fear (which may well be realistic) screaming through the headlines. My impression is the great Brit public outside the Westminster bubble have detached themselves from the dog fight or snail race … Read more
Jeremy Corbyn has been on the receiving end of a string of media attacks for anti-Semitism in the Labour Party, his support over the years for terrorist leaders, and outraged headlines over his supposed commemoration of a Palestinian Black September leader (hotly denied). Whatever the absolute truth or otherwise of the accusations, he’s … Read more
Olly Robbins, the civil servant leading the Brexit negotiations and answering directly to No 10 is now more firmly ensconced than ever as Theresa May takes over the reins. The assumption being she will be pushing for a soft Brexit with Davis and Johnson out of the Cabinet. Born 20 April 1975 he’s … Read more
A spectacular Total Lunar Eclipse this Friday will be the longest-lasting of recent times and deep red. Known as a blood Moon, it gains its hue from the light of the sun behind behind bouncing off the earth and reflecting back onto the Moon’s surface. In ye olden days there were regarded as … Read more
The UK populace has been sleep-walking through the Brexit negotiations whether through a misplaced we’ll-muddle-through-somehow-since-we-always-have attitude, or just out of sheer torpor. Who’d know who to believe? Nick Cohen in the Guardian likens Brexit Britain to a burning building with no exits and a country paralysed in the grip of an uncontrollable neurosis. … Read more
The new Foreign Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, shares with Theresa May a non-stickability talent allowing him to skate through disasters, failures and misjudgements and survive. Jupiter rides to his undeserving rescue as it squares his Scorpio Sun Venus from Leo natally. He’s also got Saturn opposition Uranus Pluto in Virgo, with Mars also in … Read more
Like flies stuck in what Matthew Parris memorably described as a tar pit, UK politicians are making a total horlicks of the Brexit negotiations. Paralysed by an inability to agree amongst themselves, they and the whole farrago are arousing amused contempt in Brussels, where the overlords just sit back and say NON every … Read more
Excitement mounts, ominous violins quiver towards crescendo, the tortuous path of Brexit is nearing a decisive turn in the road with key votes next week at Westminster. Or so they tell us. Except the great silent majority is so beyond bored by the whole botch up, they aren’t listening anymore. The latest poll … Read more
Rumblings about an IndyRef2 for Scottish independence have been growing stronger in the midst of the Brexit blunders though support remains at 45% in the polls and the last election cut SNP MPs from 56 to 35. An economic report commissioned by Nicola Sturgeon avoids the ‘moonshine’ of the last IndyRef promises of … Read more
John Bercow, Speaker of the House of Commons, is facing more allegations of bullying which No 10 has suggested should be referred for investigation. The Telegraph described him thus: “In the political bear pit of the Commons, he has both his supporters and detractors because, alongside his thin skin, odd behaviour, rages and … Read more