Tories

The irrelevance of the main political axis of the 20th century

19/05/201719/05/2017 thomas 1 Comment

In most democracies, politics in the past century was dominated by two large parties – a socialist or social-democratic party

18/04/2017 thomas 0 Comments

Theresa May seems to hate dissent. She wanted to push through Brexit without parliamentary approval, and she was happy to

16/03/2017 thomas 12 Comments

Theresa May seems to have said today she’s decided to prevent Scotland from holding a new independence referendum until Brexit

30/11/201614/03/2017 thomas 0 Comments

Ever since the Brexit referendum, I’ve kept thinking that the hard Brexit plans surely must be due to a lack

23/10/2016 thomas 2 Comments

Different countries use different means to ensure everybody and their dog don’t just turn up and use their services (such

05/10/2016 thomas 2 Comments

I’m half Danish, half German. I grew up in Denmark (before flitting to Scotland when I was 30), but of

04/10/2016 thomas 0 Comments

Do you remember when the Coalition government got into power in 2010 and introduced austerity because the UK’s finances apparently