She was meant to be leading her first cabinet meeting and preparing for her first conflabs with Angela Merkel and Francois Hollande. But today Theresa May instead remained caught up in Parliament, proudly listing the names of all those places upon which she would happily drop a nuclear bomb. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn may have erred on the side of…
Jeremy Corbyn might have shown a lifelong commitment to nuclear disarmament, joining the CND as a teenager all the way back in 1966 and campaigning resolutely on its behalf, before becoming vice chair of the organisation and finally vice president last October. But this sort of conviction politics is old hat, quite out of place from the perspective of the…
Perturbed commentators and disgruntled Labour Party MPs expressed shock and awe last night at the spectre of common sense, a quality which they believed had long disappeared from British party politics. As the Labour Party’s National Executive Committee ruled that incumbent leader Jeremy Corbyn will be allowed to stand for re-election, horror descended upon Westminster at the thought that one of the most…
As Jeremy Corbyn responded to the brick thrown through Angela Eagle’s constituency office window with a call for dignity, respect, and some modicum of calm, Eagle whimpered and declared, ‘That could have hit me! Ouch! That could have really hurt Jeremy!’. The brick passed through a ground-floor window of Eagle’s Wallasey office sometime between 5 pm on Monday and 9 am on…
‘Take these broken wings, and learn to fly again, learn to live so free’, Angela Eagle today urged the Labour Party, singing at first in a fine unfettered voice, wispy but resoundingly clear. Yet as the song played on Eagle could no longer constrain herself, and openly she began to weep, her faltering sound swiftly becoming all but inaudible, her message…
