Tania Mathias is an NHS doctor and former MP for Twickenham. At the weekend Sir Simon Stevens deftly moved away from the problems during the current pandemic – that have led to NHS doctors protesting outside Downing Street, fears about the lack of PPE, and the...
Tania Mathias: Social care reform should be Johnson’s legacy as much as Brexit
Tania Mathias is an NHS doctor and former MP for Twickenham. At the weekend Sir Simon Stevens deftly moved away from the problems during the current pandemic – that have led to NHS doctors protesting outside Downing Street, fears about the lack of PPE, and the...
Roderick Crawford: We have interests in the rest of Europe, but must be free to run our own foreign policy
Roderick Crawford works on conflict resolution in countries such as Yemen, South Sudan and Iraq, and on Brexit-related matters. He is a former editor of Parliamentary Brief. One could be forgiven a sense of déjà vu as we enter the second round of accelerated talks,...
This is the most socially liberal Conservative government in history
On Saturday, David Gauke ended his column on this site by mentioning two groups of people on the centre-right: small state free marketeers and One Nation social liberals. It would be easy to assume that both groups automatically cohere. But they don’t....
Politics: a broken machine
When the "silly season" comes early and high up in the headlines is the prime minister with the clap, the temptation is to book a prolonged holiday and come back when normal service has been resumed – if indeed that is ever likely to happen.Pete, on the other hand,...
Brexit: a diet of lies
Brexit: a diet of lies Richard North, 05/07/2020 Follow @eureferendum Work progresses apace with the revision of The Great Deception and, although I tend to work on several Chapters simultaneously, my current focus is on the 1991-2 period and the...
Prime Minister Johnson hits back at EU chief negotiator and vows to free UK of EU laws
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has hit back at the EU’s chief negotiator Michel Barnier’s claims that the UK needed to show more respect for Brussels in the Brexit negotiations after talks between the two sides broke down early on Thursday. Mr Johnson denied the idea...
Politics: ignorance is bliss
A propos the government giving us permission to go to the pub for a drink, as from 6am today, I must admit that the sight of Downing Street bottom-feeders, and other such cretins, on our TV screens calling for "responsible behaviour" tends to invite a sharp...
UNN brings you the latest from the Brexit trade talks
The latest is that the talks have broken up 24 hours early and the British and European Union negotiators have failed to achieve any sort significant breakthrough. UNN’s Oliver Down understands that the two sides’ chief negotiators David Frost and Michel Barnier have...
Brexit: not the least surprised
If it was a tiger that went in the tank, as enthusiastically advocated by prime minister Johnson, it was a paper tiger. And all that does is clog up the filters and prevent the engine running. Furthermore, cleaning out the debris is a difficult and expensive job.But...
