Major Betrayal
By Max Musson: Hot on the heels of the high profile resignation from government of Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, and at a time when the Prime Minister David Cameron is still trying to fool the British public into believing that the Tories are serious about controlling immigration, we find Conservative ex-Prime Minister John Major asserting the fundamentally ‘conservative’ nature of Britain’s immigrant population, in a similarly disingenuous bid to promote the Conservative Party’s flagging fortunes In…
A Strangely Jewish Affair …
By Max Musson: As a political writer who often has to cover issues that hinge upon the racial, religious or ethnic background of individuals in the public eye, and the connections between individuals that are often otherwise concealed, it is rather bemusing to find myself reporting on the spat that is currently taking place between Ed Miliband and the Labour Party on the one hand and the Daily Mail on the other, in which various…