Sure, sure, it is the classic last resort of the aging armchair critic to bemoan the decline in standards of public discourse and media reporting. And I have entered that septuagenarian closing chapter where I compensate for my lack of a serious immediate priorities (such as actually meeting work deadlines) with these little outbursts of …
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Buttigieg and Warren: is it time to get to know these names?
The multi-cultural melting pot of the US Presidential Election can create more twists, turns and surprises than a Brexit negotiation. And takes almost as long. Eighteen months or more. So on this side of the Atlantic people can be forgiven for switching off from the forest of names competing for air space right now – …
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So very simple
There is something awesome as well as chilling in the sheer simplicity of the strategy being pursued by (self-advertised) propaganda genius Dominic Cummings. All entirely predictable and (even by armchair Grumpy from Clapham here) predicted from the outset. Although not, it appears, by the majority of the media. The London Evening Standard (aka George Osborne) …
We are a sideshow … again
This subject probably should be a tweet rather than a blog so apologies for using this medium to knock off a rapid reaction rather than compose a considered, researched view. But the double header of this morning’s Supreme Court judgement and this evening’s news from across the Atlantic of impeachment proceedings against President Trump perfectly …
View from the Clapham Omnibus 