The right-wing plot to split the Conservative Party
While Jacob Rees-Mogg failed to topple Theresa May, he has sown the seeds for a split within the Conservative Party, and a new hard-right political force may emerge.
Tag: Politics
Letterhole Diary – November 2018
Another month passes, and another Letterhole Diary follows. In November we look at the death of Bernardo Bertolucci, the centenary of armistice, and this month’s must-reads.
Letterhole Diary – October 2018
Letterhole Diary. October. This month we consider Jair Bolsonaro’s election, starting a new job, and Fiddler on the Roof, our film of the month.
Does Brexit really need to happen?
With talk of a so-called People’s Vote aimed at stopping Brexit growing, it’s time for Remainers to ask whether a second referendum might pose some dangers of its own.
The rise and rise of the German Greens
Slowly and quietly, the German Greens are filling the void once occupied on the centre-left by the collapsing social democrats. German politics may never be the same again.
Fragmentation, not the far-right, is the story of Sweden’s election
Another European election, another round of bad takes about the far-right from the British media. Sweden’s election saw the rise of the Sweden Democrats, but that’s far from the whole story.
Little Letterhole: Remembering the Prague Spring
ON 20 AUGUST 1968, half a million Warsaw Pact soldiers swarmed into Czechoslovakia. Within 24 hours, the whole country wasContinue Reading
The legitimisation of Tommy Robinson
Tommy Robinson is an unremarkable racist, a bloke-in-the-pub with an outsized platform – we can blame the BBC for mythologising him into a working-class hero.
Letterhole Diary – July 2018
Welcome to the July edition of a series of monthly ‘Letterhole Diaries’, for all the thoughts and stories that aren’t worth a full blog post, and a summary of some of the month’s biggest events.
Little Letterhole: We’ll miss the United States when it’s gone
DONALD Trump was full of praise for his Finnish counterpart Sauli Niinistö this week. ‘I enjoyed being with you aContinue Reading
