Track and Trace, and the difference between Covid-19 and “from/with coronavirus”
Because the NHS always was about societal control, there should be no surprises that, yesterday in England, it launched a system that encourages people to inform on one another. Test and trace, or track and trace as some people are calling it, reads like a tool of authoritarianism the East German Stasi would deploy – although of course, the NHS can More...
Citizenship as cheap as chips: UK Government’s stick to beat Britons is a rod for its own back
As much as the British Government, fronted these days by Boris Johnson and a “Get Brexit Done” Tory executive branch, is convincing the Leave-voting British public (which is, generally, the part of the plebeian More...
The Brexit Party has repositioned, is selling something new, but its primary role continues to be to generate election turnout
No one can deny that since Monday, when Nigel Farage dropped all previous objections to the Tories’ Withdrawal Agreement (or Article 50 treaty with the EU), the Brexit Party has taken a different tack in its campaigning. More...
On the eve of British forever-EU undeadness, Bulgaria provides an object lesson
There’s a scene in the first Steptoe and Son movie where Albert, caught ill in Spain while on Harold’s honeymoon, says he wants to go home where he can be seen by a British doctor. When Harold points out that More...
Now the fight to leave the EU really starts
The Tory Executive has tweaked the Article 50 treaty in one place, and now there are positive noises from the EU. Michel Barnier (the EU’s Chief Negotiator), for example: “There is progress”. Jean-Claude Juncker More...
UK Government shows willing to sacrifice justice system in pursuit of Fake Brexit – likely to continue beyond October 31st
The less said about Boris Johnson’s prorogation the better: it was always intended as theatre. It’s not about one side of the political aisle frustrating another – it’s about bamboozling the public. More...
The Boris Johnson “bait and switch” operation: you won’t be buying what you think he’s selling
The effort to scare Leave-voters into tolerating an Article 50 treaty has taken a turn into bizarre and perhaps desperate territory. As the UK Government plays chess with itself and a nation observes, it has brought More...
At Brecon and Radnorshire by-election, least voter participation since 1922; Remain extremists gaslight a nation
After the Brecon and Radnorshire by-election, which came about under circumstances more implausible than those which generated the recent same such vote in Peterborough, the elephant in the room of interpretive More...
Brexit Party (versus the Lib Dems) as new device in continuing project to obtain Fake Brexit
After the European vote, there is talk of the Brexit Party being capable of pulling off a coup in a general election, but we have been here before. In 2014, UKIP sent a lot of credible people (on the surface) to More...
Summary: voting in the European election is a dumb thing to do if you want Britain to leave the EU
The European election [to return representatives to the European Parliament] is being held in Britain tomorrow. It is the poll that never should have been, because the country should have left the EU on the 29th More...
