Things fall apart
Regular readers may have noted my prolonged silence of late but the seismic outcome of the May 7th elections in Great Britain has roused me from my Trump-induced torpor. Rendered temporarily - and unchacteristically - speechless by the swirling madness of recent world affairs, I have been re-energised by the extraordinary turn of domestic poltical events. There can be little doubt in anyone's mind (apart, perhaps, from incumbent Labour Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer's) that the old 'two-party' system of politics in Great Britain (ie England, Scotland and Wales - Northern Ireland having a different party set-up and not being involved in this particular electoral cycle), where power has oscillated between the Conservative and Labour parties for a century, is finally at an end. It has limped on in Westminster politics since Tony Blair's half-arsed devolution project of the late-1990s, but in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, nationalist parties have been empowere...