With Donald Trump continuing to rail against trade deals via his own brand of virulent protectionism, while Theresa May paints a blurry picture of a post-Brexit Britain becoming a ‘global trading nation’ precisely in order to make itself great, at first glance it might seem like the two leaders are separated by more than an ocean. In fact many of…
In the United Kingdom Theresa May denounces immigrants while demanding a hard Brexit with no parliamentary oversight to tie her hands. In Turkey – after an election rerun and a faultily attempted coup – Recep Tayyip Erdoğan continues to purge all opposition and seize control of media outlets as his presidential ambitions gather pace. What can bring two despotic nationalists on…
Last July, one of Theresa May’s first acts as Prime Minister was to stress her support for the renewal of the United Kingdom’s Trident nuclear programme. Asked by Scottish National Party MP George Kerevan if she would be prepared to authorise a strike which ‘could kill a hundred thousand innocent men, women and children’, she replied: ‘Yes. And I have to…
Since usurping power on the blood and thunder of anti-immigrant rhetoric and dead refugees, Theresa May has been accused by her Conservative colleague Ken Clarke of running ‘a government without policies’. And with Brexit dominating the discussion but cannily evading all scrutiny, it remains for May to go on running her government with neither principles nor policies in sight. When…
Mere hours after Theresa May ate a three-tiered Brexit cake, made specially for the Prime Minister by some of her closest advisors and aides, she emerged from the bathroom looking several pounds lighter, her cheeks gently perspiring and rosily aglow. Alas the colour they had taken soon masked an embarrassment, for an untoward piece of tissue paper had fixed itself…
With Brexit set to cost Britain’s already struggling universities billions of pounds thanks to the inevitable drop in student numbers and loss of EU funding, it is worth remembering that even as Home Secretary Theresa May’s hard line, bullying, and bigoted stance on immigration often saw education as an expedient target. Adamant that foreign students should be counted as part of immigration…
If the mere thought of migrant corpses brings you immediately to orgasm, then you probably don’t need much privacy and you certainly don’t need no porn. That’s why Theresa May, the Tory government, and their abettors in the Labour Party this week were able to boast the long-brewing success of the Investigatory Powers Bill, which after passing in the House…
For most people, the prospect of a speech in front of any given group is enough to get the stomach churning and the butterflies aflutter. But imagine the sort of predicament which befell Theresa May, in real terms still finding her feet as Britain’s Prime Minister, when she found herself compelled to utter a few words in front of a…
Blithe or rabid comparisons to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party are never hard to come by in any walk of life, but when they’re not confined to internet forums and Twitter, recently in British politics they have been as much a preserve of the right. Take for instance the New Labour fanatic and prominent party donor Michael Foster, who after…
Whether you’re an orange-sucking mafioso or a leopard-print-wearing MP, surely every leader knows the adage about keeping your friends close, but your enemies even closer. Theresa May is no Don but she must at least be dimly aware of the concept, yet perhaps eager to show herself apart from the political game, it is one which she seems resolutely willing…
