THE AUGURIES for subsequent week’s Brexit votes usually are not good, to place it mildly. The European Reform Group of hardline Eurosceptic MPs is split into two camps: those that are prepared to compromise with the prime minister given...
THE FIRST time I encountered protesters dressed as nuns was once I lived within the Bay Space of San Francisco in 1984-5. Sister Mary Growth Growth and her fellow Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence had been fixtures on the flourishing...
I RECENTLY spent a cheerful few days in Los Angeles selling my new guide, “Capitalism in America: A Historical past” (co-written with Alan Greenspan). I used to be driving down Hollywood Boulevard in a taxi considering that each one...
(CNN) — Image the scene: rows of similar, palatial turreted buildings, surrounded by rolling hills and woodland.No, this is not the start to the newest Disney film -- it is extra eerie than that: all of those Gothic-style...
NOBODY CAN accuse Theresa Might of an unwillingness to repeat herself. The lady who stated, many times, that “Brexit means Brexit” is now telling Britain that her model of Brexit is the one model price having. This morning the...
TODAY’S Conservative Social gathering convention is all about one individual: Boris Johnson. Mr Johnson booked the biggest room within the convention centre, with sufficient house for 700, however folks however began queuing three hours early. He got here flanked...
THE most seen distinction between the Conservative Get together Convention and the Labour Get together Convention is age-adjusted costume sense. The Conservative Get together Convention is stuffed with younger individuals dressed like middle-aged enterprise individuals. The popular model is...
THE very first thing that you just discover in Birmingham is that the Conservative Social gathering is hopelessly cut up on Brexit. The federal government is united (for now) over Chequers. A lot of the celebration devoted hate it....
BIRMINGHAM was an apparent place for the Tories to carry their convention. The mayor of the West Midlands, Andy Road, is a Conservative. Central Birmingham is a much better place for conferences than Manchester (the place the Tories had...
SO FAR the Labour Social gathering’s annual convention has very a lot been John McDonnell’s. The shadow chancellor not solely delivered right this moment’s keynote deal with in the principle corridor. He’s been ubiquitous within the media and on...
A RESTAURANT critic for the New York Instances informs us that, on returning to London after a ten-year absence, he was astonished to find that the native eating places have moved past “porridge and boiled mutton”. Robert Draper has...
ON JULY 3RD Jeremy Corbyn instructed Unite, Britain’s greatest commerce union, that “Labour is again because the political voice of the working class”. This is able to be good if it had been true: the Labour Celebration was in...
