The Windsor Framework, The Stormont Brake – it sounds like a list of books by Robert Ludlum, though even that great storyteller begins to look pedestrian beside the fictions being spun by the Government, in its desperate attempt to represent capitulation as “victory”. Before anyone looks at the fine print on this latest “agreement”, one simple litmus test tells the true story: if the UK had just secured a superb deal that successfully clawed back British sovereignty, why was Ursula von der Leyen smirking like a cat that had been at the cream?
We need a new generation of thinkers to shake up political life
Political parties have lost the networks that kept them in touch with ‘real people’: in the 1950s one in 13 citizens were members of a party.
