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Unspeakable by John Bercow
A pretty reliable guide to how much a non-fiction book impresses me is how long it takes me to read it. With Michelle Obama’s Becoming, for example, I read it in about three days. It’s taken me as many weeks to finish reading Unspeakable …
It’s not yet day one of the campaign to rejoin the EU; not for me
We did it. Somehow, an entire nation lost its mind. Or 52% of it. Or 26% of it. But however we do the maths, 100% of the UK left the EU.
I wanted to write an upbeat post, about how this was day one of the campaign to rejoin the EU. That’s who I am. I’ve always been an optimist, and at those times I could view the world in one of two ways, I’ve always aimed to choose the more empowering one.
But I’m not there yet with Brexit …
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An unlikely piece of laminated card
Those who know my political background will also know how big a deal this is: to align myself with one party.
Historically, I’ve been a big believer in representational democracy: the idea that we elect a representative, not a party. I started out by meeting the candidates, questioning them on the issues that were most important to me each election, and voting for the person I felt would best represent me on those issues …
Reflections on the election
I suspect hundreds of thousands of words of analysis have been written on what went so terribly wrong in the recent election, most of them by people better qualified than I to make sense of it all. But I guess we each have to come to terms with it in our own way, and my process inevitably involves writing about it …
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