Steve Anglesey

3 weeks ago | thenewworld.co.uk | Steve Anglesey

Only the most perverse of masochists enjoys GB News. Those of us whose jollies are not obtained by watching dead-eyed controvobots blame two-tier Keir for chemtrails in the Chagos Islands tend to avoid it. But occasionally – and let’s face it, accidentally – it serves up something worth watching.

4 weeks ago | theneweuropean.co.uk | Steve Anglesey

With a mere 1,533 days left until the last possible date for the next general election, Keir Starmer delivered his first speech of the campaign on Thursday. Ignoring the Conservatives almost completely (“they’re in decline, they’re sliding into the abyss,” he said), the prime minister used almost all of his remarks and the subsequent Q&A to attack Nigel Farage. It was a session of soundbites and, more importantly, seed-planting.

1 month ago | theneweuropean.co.uk | Steve Anglesey

There’s no surer sign that an organisation is out of good ideas than when it brings back a face from the past, aware that it will keep the fans happy but almost certainly lead to disaster. Chelsea supporters wanted José Mourinho back until they got him back and were reminded of why he’d had to go in the first place. The same with EastEnders viewers and Leslie “Dirty Den” Grantham.

1 month ago | theneweuropean.co.uk | Steve Anglesey

There was a touch of the nasty talent show judge about Keir Starmer at Prime Minister’s Questions this week, when Plaid Cymru’s Liz Saville Roberts asked: “Is there any belief he holds which survives a week in Downing Street?” and the PM shot back: “Yes, the belief that she talks rubbish.”Supporters of the Welsh independence party affected to be gravely affronted, but the snarky quip was hardly the most offensive thing Starmer had come up with in recent days.

1 month ago | theneweuropean.co.uk | Steve Anglesey

After the BBC unearthed photos of three Bulgarians convicted of spying for Russia attending a Brexit committee in Westminster in 2016, two words not heard for a long time have started to resurface among some excitable Remainers: Brexit inquiry. Eager though I am to see Britain return to the European Union, the pictures hardly offer conclusive proof that Vladimir Putin bought the referendum.