This year at the Edinburgh Fringe, the joke of the year was from Tim Vine: “I’ve decided to sell my hoover… well, it was just collecting dust.” But that is not the biggest joke about vacuum cleaners this week. No,
That UKIP is a party of contradictions is news to no one within the bubble, and something I have written about here previously. The party once attracted predominantly former Conservatives, both of small ‘c’ and large ‘C’ ilk. With the
Charles de Gaulle, the great French war time leader, famously asked “How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?” Well, he gave it a solid shot, but clearly he was unaware of
David Cameron wants to put Britain first. Not by giving the British people a long awaited referendum on their future in Europe, nor by cutting taxes and protecting civil liberties, but by promising for perhaps the sixth time over the
GLASGOW, UK – The Commonwealth Games have started and I am here in a surprisingly warm and gorgeous Glasgow for the Opening Ceremony. After London 2012 the pressure is on for Scotland: 6500 athletes from 53 countries, 71 if you
Understandably, recent British headlines have been dominated by Prime Minister David Cameron’s sweeping and divisive reshuffle of his cabinet, just ten months away from a General Election that could turn into one of the bloodiest in history. Neither the traditional
What does UKIP stand for? If you ask the members you’ll receive a range of conflicting answers wider than the sun. If you ask the media, half will call us closet racists and the other half will return a snort
Not content with ruining his own country’s economy and seeing some of its best and brightest flee to freer lands, the French President, François Hollande, is trying to spread his own particular flavour of socialism across Europe via everyone’s favourite
What is it with politicians and Mumsnet? I admit, I am an avid reader. I don’t have darling children (DC), I have no intention of ‘TTC’ (trying to conceive) for a very long time, and I certainly don’t have a
It has often been said that Cameron is at his best when his back is to the wall. He thrives in a crisis, but seems less sure footed when the stakes aren’t so high. Yet in the face of the
The European elections are over but the negotiations in Brussels continue as newly elected MEPs jostle for positions in the pan-European groupings. UKIP might have bagged the most votes in the UK but out in Europe they’re finding themselves rather
From the far left to the far right, in Britain, France, Denmark, Austria and Greece, euroscepticism is not merely “on the rise”; it has triumphed. In Britain, Nigel Farage MEP hailed a political earthquake, the greatest result seen in over
