The Last Ditch by Tom Paine

Link: The TaxPayers’ Alliance – Better Government: Beyond the Dome: Government projects £23 billion over budget. Could anyone in private business survive the revelation of incompetence on this scale? I do not understand why British taxpayers take no interest in these matters. I would be interested to see this huge…

In the Blair/Brown double act Gordon Brown was the straight man. Tony was the chirpy, charming chappie constantly taking Gordon for a mug. Gordon was the dour intellectual. Tony was the loveable rogue. I have never believed this line. If a politician is to succeed, he must have followers. To…

I have been criticised, after just two short articles on Mr. Brown, for being unfair to him. As I move onto perhaps the most contentious of my topics, let me strive to give him his say by setting out in extenso what he has said about the British values he…

Much has been made, not least by his own publicists, of Gordon Brown’s support for the United Kingdom and of his desire to see the Union Flag flying from all our public buildings. He is a proud Scot (and why not, there is much to be proud of) but he…

Appearance and reality have rarely diverged so far in British politics as of late. The Labour Party of Blears and Prescott could easily have portrayed itself as the trade union stooge of old. The people were the same. The policies differed only in a shocking new authoritarianism designed to triangulate…

The British now face their immediate political future under the leadership of a man they hardly know. Is he a charmless thug, or a canny political operator? A good and kind friend, or a "Stalinist" who would turn even private grief to political advantage? Or all of the above? For…