This comment piece originally appeared in Eastern Eye.  Faced with a bombed-out House of Commons after the Second World War, Winston Churchill could have had the heavily damaged, long-outgrown Victorian-era chamber rebuilt to accommodate the correct number of MPs. Instead, it remained the same size – seating just 420 out…

This comment piece originally appeared in Eastern Eye.  Faced with a bombed-out House of Commons after the Second World War, Winston Churchill could have had the heavily damaged, long-outgrown Victorian-era chamber rebuilt to accommodate the correct number of MPs. Instead, it remained the same size – seating just 420 out…

This article first appeared in the Guardian. A government under potentially lethal fire and fearing for its very existence will do virtually anything to protect itself. That is the plight of this wretched government. It will contort reality, throw up flares and turn its face on decency – anything to…