As I have not commented on the Oldham by-election of last Thursday, just about everything that could be said may well have been said and I c...

No, this is not about Kippers rejoicing about Greece's discomfort because this version of it sounds like a defiance of the EU but about ...

By members of Parliament I do not mean just MPs but peers as well who are members though not of the elected House. I am not going to argue i...

While I am struggling with that long post-election blog and David Cameron is forming his new government (with strange stories about some of ...

I did my commenting about the latest Nigel Farage saga on the BBC Russia Service where I managed to add that I did not consider UKIP to be a...

Owen Paterson, who can now take the position Douglas Carswell occupied until recently, of being the most important back bencher on the gover...

What with builders working on the back wall and having to read the huge first volume of the latest mammoth biography of  Stalin by Stephen K...

[Health warning: yes, this is another posting about UKIP but it is not entirely critical of that benighted organization or, at least, it is ...

Back in the days of the numerous People's Democracies and People's Republics (one or two of which are still with us) it would have s...

In this week's Spectator there is an article by and an attached podcast by Lord Pearson of Rannoch, a man who appears frequently on thi...

Oh, I beg your pardon: this time it is an "electoral storm cloud" gathering over Westminster, according to Paul Nuttall, UKIP Dep...

To some extent, we can argue that if Douglas Carswell manages to hold Clacton this will be of some importance as he will be the first electe...

As we are coming to the end of the last serious conference season before the next General Election (those extras, like the winter conference...

Honestly, I was not going to blog about the UKIP (or any other party) conference but I did note that some of their policies meant that they ...

Just as I thought I would not have to write about UKIP again until the General Election campaign, along comes Douglas Carswell, the man, who...

Readers will have noticed from the title that I am a little more optimistic than that "great thinker" and vicious political squabb...

The Conservatives won Newark with a halved but comfortable majority on a turn-out of 53.79 per cent. UKIP well enough but did not produce t...

No, I have not done my analysis of the European elections and what they might mean for the future of this country's or the EU's poli...

The day of the most hysterically hyped unimportant election in living memory has dawned. It is all nearly over. We shall have the local elec...

Ever nearer draws that election day and as people around me, wherever I go in what is laughingly known as real life remain underwhelmed by...