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Tuesday, 27 June 2017
Why the British voters are to blame for everything
In the immediate run-up to last year’s referendum on Europe, there were two distinct classes of Brexiteer. There were those..
By Walter Ellis
Monday, 19 June 2017
What a total arse the Tories have made of it
As Britain lurches from crisis to crisis, like a drunk man trying to make his way home from a party,..
By Walter Ellis
Monday, 29 May 2017
Never mind the PM's social care wobble: the election really is about Brexit
A number of political commentators have been making the point in recent days that the election was supposed to be..
By Walter Ellis
Tuesday, 23 May 2017
Carnage in Manchester: time for the Muslim community to stand up
I remember an American political commentator remarking once after a deadly spate of tornadoes hit the Mid-West that it was..
By Walter Ellis
Thursday, 18 May 2017
Vote for the inevitable. Vote Conservative.
Something bizarre is happening to Britain. A kind of fatalism has gripped the nation. Voters seem reconciled to a hard..
By Walter Ellis
Monday, 15 May 2017
Macron reveals his choice as prime minister, then jets off to Berlin
Well, En Marche is a new party and Emmanuel Macron had only been installed in the Elysée Palace for 24..
By Walter Ellis
Monday, 15 May 2017
As Macron marches on, a valedictory for Valls
When I said the other day that Emmanuel Macron, installed yesterday as France’s new President, was considering the appointment of..
By Walter Ellis
Wednesday, 10 May 2017
Macron's France: The Old Order crumbleth
The pace is picking up in France. Manuel Valls, who resigned as the Socialist Government’s prime minister five months ago..
By Walter Ellis
Monday, 8 May 2017
Macron in excelsis: now for the hard part
To the strains of Beethoven’s Ode to Joy and flanked by the flags of the European Union as well as..
By Walter Ellis