The Hard Border Alone Torpedoes The “Independence” Case

Leave aside questions about currency and austerity and neoliberalism and asking why Scotland would rather be a tiny fish in the EU lake rather than a big fish in the British pond: the notion of the hard border should torpedo any idea of the current Scottish “independence” prospectus by itself. An unfortunate, clownish SNP figure…

The Brexit/Scotland Nexus

Not only did almost all Leavers demand that the June 2016 EU vote was recognised but so many Remainers too. It was just bad taste and not British to, in effect, claim that a one-off was a two-legged affair and that pissed off many a Remainer-voter as well. I know because I was a Remainer,…

Just One View: Who Dares Wins (US Title: The Final Option) (1982)

5th October 1962 and the first Bond film and the first single by The Beatles were both released on that same day. Amazingly, the star of this film wasn’t much more than a stone’s throw away from being both James Bond and a member of The Beatles. Talking Pictures TV, Freeview channel 81, does a…

More Guardian Apologia For Starmer.

I offered a corrective to it and it seemed popular with people so I’ve copied it over to here too. “Breaking: Starmer is indeed 20 points ahead!…..April Fool!” “*GIF of those blokes moving goalposts*. When Corbyn’s Labour was 8 points ahead on 45%, Blair made yet another “rare intervention” to complain that they weren’t 20 points ahead….