British Politics

London, England

Jews Must Choose: Lord Hermer or Lord Glasman?

The manufactured “controversy” I discussed on this site previously, about a schoolboy Nigel Farage allegedly saying Jews smell of poo about fifty years ago or something, ...

A Crippled Economy

A strange new phenomenon is taking place in U.K. skies. Paralyzed Indians are flying into the country needing wheelchairs and then quite happily springing up and walking away from ...

Who Jew Think You Are?

Did you ever call another child rude names when you were at school? If so, a future career in politics may no longer be open to you. The Prime Minister of the Allegedly United ...

Send Them All Paki-ing

Suffering from the worst approval ratings for the nation’s leader since numbers were invented, Britain’s malfunctioning android of a prime minister, Sir Keir Starmer, went ...

A Bridgen Too Far

On the night of the U.K. general election, I was on the phone with someone working for the campaigning MP Andrew Bridgen as the first two ballot boxes were opened at his count, ...

Victorian memorial statue of Florence Nightingale in Westminster, London

The Old Woman Who Swallowed a Lie—That Immigration Works

Imagine being stabbed by a man with a big knife, who then offered to sell you some handy bandages at half price, before expecting you to be grateful for it. Here in the U.K., that ...

Stillborn on the Fourth of July: Britain’s Abortive Election

When is winning an election also simultaneously to lose it? According to most pundits, this week’s July 4 General Election here in the U.K. is due to be a complete Labour ...

Nigel Farage

The Last Honest Man

I feel like Diogenes, the Ancient Greek who walked about sunny Athens with a lamp looking for an honest man. And I have found one in Nigel Farage, certainly the last politician ...

Houses of Parliament

Bent Politicians

What’s your definition of bravery? Rushing into a burning building to save a sizzling baby? Holding off an entire platoon of soldiers from capturing your lonely position ...

Musical Chairs at 10 Downing Street

There have been many legendary comments made in the House of Commons, the primary legislative chamber of the United Kingdom, and Sir Winston Churchill is responsible for many of ...

Out, Damned Symonds!

Like Macbeth in Dunsinane, British prime minister Boris Johnson is creating his enemies by ending their careers. Actually, the two share much in common, both having changed their ...

Theresa Mayday

Britain’s international relations have acquired something of Paris in the spring of 1871. Having achieved a lightning defeat at the hands of Prussia, the inhabitants of the ...

Timing Is Everything

William Gladstone, the great Victorian Liberal leader, the most successful electoral politician of the age, believed that success in politics depended on right timing. This was ...

Parliament Without Power

It's important to restrict the power of government"€”any government. In Britain this used to be the task of Parliament, especially the House of Commons. Government was the ...

Boris Johnson

The Perils of Winning

"€œThe whole worl"€™ is in a state o"€™ chassis,"€ says a character in a Sean O"€™Casey play. By "€œchassis"€ he meant "€œchaos,"€ but "€œchassis,"€ ...

Houses of Parliament, London

Will There Always Be an England?

In his op-ed in The Washington Post, Chris Grayling, leader of the House of Commons, made the case for British withdrawal from the European Union—in terms Americans can ...

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