Whatever your views of Boris Johnson, ejecting from Parliament the man responsible for the Government's current majority is a victory for the Blob that stains our democracy.
In the latest Weekly Sceptic podcast the talking points are Boris Johnson quitting Parliament, Trump being indicted on federal charges and the BBC's war on 'disinformation'.
In this week's London Calling, the main topic is the extraordinary coincidence of three figures who’ve dominated politics for a decade suffering reversals of fortune in one week: Trump, Boris and Sturgeon.
Former PM Boris Johnson is resigning as an MP after receiving a letter from the Privileges Committee informing him that it has found him guilty of misleading Parliament over the 'partygate' lockdown gatherings.
The Tories are not, as they like to imagine, the victims of the Blob, but its creators. Civil service reform sounds dull but is essential if elected Governments are ever to regain control.
Daily Sceptic columnist J Sorel has filed his dispatch on the National Conservatism Conference and concludes the movement, if that's what it is, isn't serious about winning and wielding political power.
'Red Wall Toryism' was said to be more authoritarian, more economically statist and, somehow, gruffer, than its southern cousin. But this was a mistake; the 'Red Wall' is not a foreign country.
Commenting on the Boris Johnson trial, Spectator editor Fraser Nelson comments that "it’s not just right but important that politicians end up ensnared in the traps they set for others".
Boris Johnson has today published his long-awaited ‘partygate’ defence, ahead of his appearance before the Privileges Committee tomorrow afternoon.
The Government's response to the pandemic was to cast aside all restraint on untrammelled power and plunge the country into authoritarianism. We pulled back from the brink, says Guy de la Bédoyère, but only just.
