Category Archives: politics

Is the Khan-Maugham bromance going tits up?

Posted on October 7, 2026 by wonkypolicywonk

Spare a thought for wealthy activist tax lawyer Jolyon Maugham KC, who has just had his Crimbo ruined by his erstwhile mate, Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London. Despite me having long ago asked the Good Law Project to stop … Continue reading →

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Is the Polanski-Maugham bromance going tits up?

Posted on October 6, 2026 by wonkypolicywonk

Back in August, I noted on this blog that infamous animal batterer and wealthy activist tax lawyer, Jolyon Maugham KC, had teamed up with failed actor and one-time boob-enlarging hypnotist David Paulden (aka Zack Polanski) to legally defend the ever … Continue reading →

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The Jollyon Green Giant

Posted on August 27, 2026 by wonkypolicywonk

(With apologies to The Kingsmen) It’s not easy to imagine a nuttier combo of ‘late developer leftie’ nutjobs than former boob-enlarging hypnotist David Paulden (aka Zack Polanski) and former tax (avoidance) lawyer Jolyon Maugham KC. So it’s entirely fitting that … Continue reading →

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Millionaire shortbread

Posted on July 23, 2026 by wonkypolicywonk

So, some 120 UK-based millionaires – including football pundit Gary Lineker, crime writer Val McDermid, screenwriter/director Richard Curtis and at least 100 people you’ve never heard of – have generously written to newbie prime minister Andy Burnham, urging him to … Continue reading →

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Brexit: the stupendous stupidity of the Green Party

Posted on June 30, 2026 by wonkypolicywonk

Last week, a column by the liberal, pro-European journalist Hugo Rifkind about the 2016 Referendum reminded me that, of the two charlatan-led political parties currently hoovering up votes from the Labour Party on account of its ostrich-like stance on Brexit … Continue reading →

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Walking dead: Keir Starmer, Lauren Edwards and the new but identically flawed NHS-assisted suicide PMB

Posted on June 15, 2026 by wonkypolicywonk

So, Labour MP Lauren Edwards – who, as noted on this blog last month, came second in the recent Private Members’ Bill (PMB) ballot – has opted to re-introduce Kim Leadbeater’s deeply flawed and defeated NHS-assisted suicide Bill in the … Continue reading →

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Better off dead: the NHS-assisted suicide PMB

Posted on May 22, 2026 by wonkypolicywonk

As noted on this blog in April, supporters of NHS-assisted suicide reacted to the long, slow death of Kim Leadbeater’s inadequately scrutinised Private Members’ Bill (PMB) in the House of Lords by revealing a somewhat undemocratic plan to “table an … Continue reading →

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Why the Labour Party lost everywhere last week

Posted on May 11, 2026 by wonkypolicywonk

Since late 2024, my wife Joanna and I have received a combined total of five speeding tickets from the Metropolitan Police. And, in each case, the strategically-placed automatic camera had caught us driving at … 24 mph. Most recently, the … Continue reading →

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Workers deserve better than ‘hope’

Posted on May 4, 2026 by wonkypolicywonk

So, having publicly defended the right of murderous armed nutjobs to be arrested ever so gently by police officers, former boob-enlarging hypnotist David Paulden (aka Zack Polanski) and his Watermelon Party have now gone big on the rights of workers. … Continue reading →

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Wealth of nations, poverty of policy

Posted on February 27, 2026 by wonkypolicywonk

Zack Polanski, the former boob-enlarging hypnotist and Liberal Democrat who now leads the Green Party, says that yesterday’s Gorton & Denton by-election result proves the Labour Party is a busted flush, and that voting Green is now the only way … Continue reading →

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