by Patrick O’Flynn | Jun 20, 2020 | Insight
WHEN US rocker Alice Cooper sang joyfully that “school’s out for summer” he captured a feeling of excitement about the onset of school holidays that many of us will remember from childhood. When he followed that up with a declaration that...
by Patrick O’Flynn | Jun 17, 2020 | Insight
THE cumulative difficulties brought by the coronavirus pandemic, related economic woes and the recent violent scenes in London, have led some to accuse Boris Johnson of “being in office but not in power”. Last week Cabinet minister Michael Gove gave...
by Patrick O’Flynn | Jun 15, 2020 | Insight
The outpourings of grief and rage that have dominated our television screens over the past fortnight have prompted great soul-searching about the state of modern Britain. But it is important to remember a salient fact: the animating cause was an event that happened in...
by Patrick O’Flynn | Jun 1, 2020 | Insight
Almost across the political spectrum, people appear to have decided that it is a very good thing that the government may offer Hong Kong citizens with British Nationals Overseas (BNO) status the chance to come and live in the UK permanently. With China having passed...
by Patrick O’Flynn | May 27, 2020 | Insight
They say that no good turn goes unpunished and after breaking the Brexit impasse and steering the Conservative Party to its first decent parliamentary majority for more than 30 years, Boris Johnson and Dominic Cummings are learning the truth of that observation. To...
