Category: Politics

Consultations

Like Sherlock Holmes I am often consulted. These consultations take many forms.

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The Long View

As Article 50 is triggered many of us take a long view. On BBC Radio 4 The Long View makes a comparison with the overtures made by Elizabeth I to Turkey, Asia and North Africa to open trade routes. You can hear it on iPlayer so it would be otiose to go on about that.

Democracy or Dominant Minority?

I am going, metaphorically, to skate on thin ice. I don’t know much about Obama’s health care legislation or Trump’s proposed but rejected reforms.

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The Crunch

The phoney war’s almost over, in a few days we will face the crunch. I am realistic about the complexity and pessimistic about the effect of the UK’s departure from the EU.

Other Men’s Flowers

There is a tide in the affairs of men. Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat, And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures.

How to Save the NHS

This is what came through my letter box. “No cuts, no closures, no privatisation.” What are these ninnies on about?

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Welcome, Mr President

I cannot contain my irritation at the protests about President Trump being invited to come here on a State Visit. Like people who commit crime in multi-storey car parks – it’s wrong on so many levels.

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Taking a Long View

Happy new year from a wet, windswept London. It’s a time of resolutions and prognostications for 2017 in the media but here at Blog Bellew HQ we take a longer perspective.