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Queen’s speech: manifestly absurd

IMAGINE THE scenario. An unelected leader visits a country’s parliament – and sits in a chamber of unelected members of parliament and summons the elected representatives of the people to hear what the elected leader has sanctioned as the legislative ...

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Manchester: why is USA involved?

QUESTIONS ARE being asked about why the USA has been kept so closely informed about the Manchester suicide bombing. It began on the night, when US officials were the first to announce that the explosion in the Manchester Arena had ...

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French right in hot water over EU funds

TWO RIGHT WING French politicians are in trouble over their alleged misuse of EU funds. Marine Le Pen, Leader of the far-right, anti-immigrant Front National, has missed the deadline for paying back over £250,000 of EU funding claimed to employ ...

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Migrants: a political football across EU

GERMANY HAS just announced that Angela Merkel’s “open door” policy for refugees has been overturned in practice as well as forgotten in principle: only 280,000 people sought asylum in 2016 – down by 600,000 on 2015. Merkel’s original response to ...

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UK economy frail ahead of Brexit

The UK economy’s report card for 2016 reads “has made some progress, but could do better”. It has done well in terms of stock market performance and house prices – but these measures do not guarantee long term security or ...

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