Pygmy Week Begins

CSM EDITORIAL Another key week dawns for Brexit. This week the political pygmies all vie for their place in the footnotes of History. When people look back in hundreds of years at how nation states resurfaced in the twenty first century to bask in peaceful cooperation, Brexit will be seen as the starter gun of national freedom from the straitjacket of undemocratic unions – and … Continue reading Pygmy Week Begins

Seditious in the Extreme

CSM EDITORIAL Dominic Grieve – the former Attorney General and ardent Remainer, who was sacked by David Cameron – seeks by Order No. 14(1) to enable Parliament to take over the Brexit process. To the interminable fury of Brexiteers, this would see a cluster of Remainers revoke Article 50 – or cancel Brexit altogether. The intricacies of the amendment and what it would mean to … Continue reading Seditious in the Extreme

The King Wanted to Fish

CSM EDITORIAL Yesterday’s outburst by Dominic Grieve on the radio was embarrassing – for him and the Conservative Party. That someone of such low rank should attack the recently-resigned foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, and in such a public way, was both petty and puerile. Grieve threatening to resign gives us all hope and puts wind in Johnson’s sails. Perhaps Grieve can be joined by Anna … Continue reading The King Wanted to Fish

Prisoner Exchange

BY JOHN ISMAEL Despite Labour Trotskyites like derisible Laura Pidcock, who declared she had “no intention of being friends” with any Tory MP, when you put the two parties alongside each other there is unquestionably a subset who share almost all the same politics and are neither obviously blue or red. Since, these days, the Lib Dems are a dinosaur run by a skeleton, this … Continue reading Prisoner Exchange