Boris Johnson’s demise as prime minister was destined to be spectacular.
The spectacular demise of Boris Johnson and what comes next
Tag: Boris Johnson
Boris Johnson: the King Midas who turns everything to shite
No sooner than Boris Johnson tried to look statesmanlike, it all fell apart.
We need to stop Boris Johnson before it is too late
Boris Johnson is the most dangerous prime minister I’ve suffered.
The tensions in Johnson’s government provide opportunities
As the political year ends, it’s worthwhile to reflect on the utter incompetence of Boris Johnson.
Why Boris Johnson still isn’t a libertarian
Monday has been dubbed ‘Freedom Day’ by the Prime Minister.
Cummings confirmed what we all knew. So where is the anger?
Last week could have been a pivotal moment in British politics.
Demanding the impossible: why sleaze in UK politics will never go away
The UK political system is a history of scandal after scandal.
Incompetence, Cronyism, Repression: One Year On, What is the Covid State?
Last year, I wrote in this blog that the UK government’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic crisis was one of ‘callous incompetence’.[1] In hi…
The current variant of Thatcherism is more deadly than the original
In a liberal democracy, it’s hard to imagine a more dangerous prospect than neoliberals running a country during a global pandemic.
Get Boris done in
This text first appeared in the newly released Class War magazine.
Between the Covid spikes, the dark conservatism of Boris Johnson develops
Between the first two spikes of the Covid 19 pandemic, Boris Johnson’s true colours have started to appear.
Your perceptions are wrong
“That’s just your perception” is a phrase I heard a lot as a trade union activist.
Reflections on the incompetence of the Johnson government
Being ideologically opposed to government, or the very least top-down imposed upon us government, we can sometimes just criticise government action…
Johnson, Cummings and the spectacle of scandal
We’ve finally gotten to the end of a road which has been decades in the making, in which politicians have slowly realised something that the …
The great realignment of British politics has begun. Where it ends cannot be foreseen.
When I started this column in 2016 the initial idea was to write a traditional politics column but from an anarchist perspective.
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