Orchidelirium
The lady’s slipper orchid, Cypripedium calceolus, is both a beautiful and silly–looking plant. It is the strangest of our native…
Labour’s happy surprise
‘Science,’ wrote Jules Verne, ‘is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because…
The love Labour’s losing
Stoke-on-Trent is an unsettled place, figuratively and literally. The ground under the city is riddled with shafts from coal and…
May’s big chance
It is the fate of all new prime ministers to be compared with their recent predecessors. Theresa May has already…
May’s big chance
It is the fate of all new prime ministers to be compared with their recent predecessors. Theresa May has already…
In search of Mayism
What does Theresa May believe? The new Prime Minister has had the summer to settle into her job and has…
In search of Mayism
What does Theresa May believe? The new Prime Minister has had the summer to settle into her job and has…
Frankenstein’s Westmonster
All political parties are a mess: coalitions of people with different beliefs, stitched together — like Frankenstein’s monster — into…
Frankenstein’s Westmonster
All political parties are a mess: coalitions of people with different beliefs, stitched together — like Frankenstein’s monster — into…
Remind you of anyone? How Theresa May is morphing into Gordon Brown
Standing outside No. 10, our newly chosen — though not elected — Prime Minister decided to address the country directly.…
Remind you of anyone? How Theresa May is morphing into Gordon Brown
Standing outside No. 10, our newly chosen — though not elected — Prime Minister decided to address the country directly.…
May’s man of influence
Civil servants in the Home Office, even the senior ones, always felt a little nervous when walking towards Theresa May’s…
Will Labour never learn?
By now, Labour should be rather good at post-defeat inquests. Plenty have been conducted over the years and the drill…
Do the Tories want to lose London?
The Labour plotters who dream of ousting Jeremy Corbyn had high hopes for the local elections on 5 May. They…
Cameron’s new army of Tory loyalists
Listen http://rss.acast.com/viewfrom22/thereturnofassisteddying/media.mp3 Time was when the Conservatives believed that a small majority — which puts a government at the mercy…
Labour MPs’ next choice: which leadership coup to back
Listen http://rss.acast.com/viewfrom22/thecleaneatingcult/media.mp3 Jeremy Corbyn’s close friend Tony Benn had five questions he always asked of those in power: ‘What power…
Time is running out for Labour
Listen http://rss.acast.com/viewfrom22/chinasdownturn-labourslostvotersandthesweetestvictoryagainstaustralia/media.mp3 The Labour leadership contest was supposed to be a debate about the party’s future. Instead it has oscillated…
The agony of Labour’s old-fashioned modernisers
Listen http://rss.acast.com/viewfrom22/theosbornesupremacy/media.mp3 The exhausted Labour leadership contest takes a bucket-and-spade holiday next week, with all four candidates agreeing to an…
The Tories are preparing for civil war in the unlikely event of victory
It is quite normal in British politics for a political party to turn on itself after an election defeat —…
The Tories are paying the price for underestimating Ukip
Listen http://traffic.libsyn.com/spectator/TheViewFrom22_13_Nov_2014_v4.mp3 In a corner of the Ukip campaign office in Rochester, a light-up orb is spinning, with the words…
The Tories are paying the price for underestimating Ukip
Listen http://traffic.libsyn.com/spectator/TheViewFrom22_13_Nov_2014_v4.mp3 In a corner of the Ukip campaign office in Rochester, a light-up orb is spinning, with the words…
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