The cheery rosy-faced London “bobby” was nowhere to be seen. In his place were pairs of flak-jacketed and heavily-armed Metropolitan Police and there were rumors that the SAS, Britain’s elite special forces, were on the streets too.

The voting public’s perception of Europe remains unenthusiastic at best.

As with a poem or a dance a symphony or a drama there are times when the deeper narrative of human experience comes to expression more clearly only through art Political events or their interpretation are no different The title of a French film released last year ldquo Cartoonists Foot-sold

Jeremy Corbyn is now the leader of a party of which a substantial section profoundly disagree with him.

The Calais migrants emerge as real people, some of whom even go to church.

The critical moment has now come when practically everyone in Britain and across Europe has finally realized the enormity of the tragedy happening across our continent.

The British Labour Party has long been marked by factionalism and splits, entryism and intrigue. The center and the right have it too, but they hide it better. With Labour, it is visible and endemic.It has happened again, as Labour tries to drag itself back from disaster after the Parliamentary gene

What we are seeing is a humanitarian disaster on a much larger scale than previously thought.

The biggest talking point thus far is the remarkable popularity of Jeremy Corbyn, a veteran of the party’s left.

Opposition leader reminds Prime Minister Cameron “he is talking about people, not insects.”