All posts tagged May
Fifty Days to Fantasyland
Less than 50 days to Brexit and here we are – who’d a think it? My perpetual moodiness with all things EU is being tempered while I write this, thanks […]
Tories, Tactics, and Tuition Fees
I was listening to The News Quiz on BBC Radio 4, because I am just that cool, and one of the panellists was asked about Labour’s new policy on animal […]
Jo Johnson and Freeze Peach
I wanted to write about almost anything that wasn’t the Conservative Party and their inability to do anything useful or clever. But no. This week marks a new policy from […]
ELECTION ANALYSIS
Well then. This election has been utterly surreal, and though there are obvious winners (YouGov, Corbyn) and losers (May) – almost everyone has been proven wrong. My last column, I […]
Busting Election Myths Part Two: Commiserations and Celebrations
By the time you’ve read this, this column will already have aged. The election is over, and we (probably) now have a Government. The last column I wrote was about […]
Taking Our Country Back
The bright, otherworldly hours of the morning after a sensational night for British democracy have been met, necessarily, by a sober tempering of jubilation; though critically wounded, the Conservatives look […]
Ariana Grande Manchester Terror Attack: An Attack on the Arts
It is May 23rd, just gone midday, as I write this. Yesterday was such a beautiful day – London reached 24 degrees, it was like the beginning of summer – […]
THE BEST GIGS TO SEE THIS MAY
Now we are out of the winter months, musicians come out of their recording studios and show us what they’ve been up to. May is great month to go out […]