Scottish Daily Mail columnist CHRIS DEERIN has just joined the Labour Party. He says the 'abomination that is Jeremy Corbyn's leadership' has forced him to declare his hand. He says he is ignoring advice he was given 20 years ago - that journalists should remain impartial from politics - but he says it is crucial that Britain has an effective Opposition...and that involves getting a new leader to replace Corbyn (pictured). ...read
Chris Deerin for the Daily Mail's recent articles
CHRIS DEERIN: Win the war only to lose the peace - is this the fate of Cameron's myopic pro-EU campaign?
It’s as if we’re a nation of goldfish; as if the key moments in recent British history – Iraq and Afghanistan and the Scottish independence vote – had never happened. As if there isn’t at least one glaringly obvious lesson to be learned from all three. ...read
CHRIS DEERIN: Sorry, but it looks like the West's once-great future is all behind us
A recent conference at Oxford's Blavatnik School of Government on the shared challenges facing governments across the planet was a supercharged, real-life equivalent of campus novel character Morris Zapp and his fictional colleagues: global, eminent, garlanded with honours, terrifyingly bright. Power and influence talking to itself, in its own language, writes CHRIS DEERIN. ...read
May 2016
- CHRIS DEERIN: Eight years after Fred Goodwin's demise, sickening proof capitalism has learnt nothing
April 2016
- Oh, to see Ruth and her Tories – shorn of their toxic past – shock Nicola’s SNP from its lazy apathy