Jonathan Bracey Gibbon has over the past 20 years has written for The Times, the Financial Times, The Sunday Times and Sunday Express. He has also been a magazine editor in the oil, retail and marketing sectors. He is associate producer of the forthcoming documentary movie, '1' on the history of Formula 1, and is a committee member of the Manchester United Supporters' Trust
Tom Watson's resignation heralds dark times for Miliband
Tom Watson's resignation following Dan Hodges' suggestion of his removal proves that Labour's leader is at a Rubicon moment
- 5 July 2013
The BBC hits the right note with Question Time
It feels almost strange to say it, but the BBC got Question Time absolutely spot on last night
- 14 June 2013
Understanding North Korea, understanding military-first
North Korea simply cannot disarm. The military-first country has to behave this way for reasons of self-justification
- 17 April 2013
Railing about the state of welfare
To paraphrase Spartacus: I'm Iain Duncan-Smith!…(Blimey)
- 3 April 2013
Justice taking second place to a system saving face
The truth of the Meredith Kercher case is being lost in the endless process of trying to save face, initially by prosecutor Mignini, but now of the Italian judicial system
- 27 March 2013
Is the worm turning on the BBC?
Has the nation finally had enough of BBC bias?
- 16 March 2013
Tripped by insufferable arrogance: Huhne gets 8 months
One suspects that release from prison will only be the beginning of the downfall, such is the scale of the damage done by one man's insufferable arrogance
- 11 March 2013
Why accept the socialist-driven Iraq War narrative?
George Galloway may be a master orator, but we'd do well not to allow him free rein over the Iraq War narrative
- 27 February 2013
NHS: The Jimmy Savile of state institutions?
If, as it seems, MidStaffs is not atypical but the tip of an horrendous iceberg, it could be the beginning of the end of the NHS in its current form
- 8 February 2013
Review: House of Cards
The American re-make of House of Cards is very different to the original, but equally brilliant
- 7 February 2013
Bacon baulks at accusations of leftist anti-Semitsm
Richard Bacon's reaction to Jonathan Meades's reasonable equivalence of leftist anti-Semitism of old and new is symptomatic of exactly what Meades was trying to portray
- 4 February 2013
Piers Morgan meets the loud voice of gun ownership
In the UK, it is too easy to smirk at the pro-gun lobby's theatrical defence of the 2nd ammendment. But the fact is, the likes of Alex Jones are deadly serious
- 8 January 2013
Things get prickly for Piers on gun control
Masochistic or not, Piers Morgan under fire is always entertaining
- 21 December 2012
Is 'plebgate' now as big a scandal as the hacking furore?
Michael Crick's devastating account of the 'plebgate' affair is such a brilliantly executed piece of journalism it leaves hanging a number of threads ripe for speculation
- 19 December 2012
Haven't we already had enough of Starbucks's pie?
Rather mimicking the Leveson debate, whereby simplistic, bitter campaigners are attempting to mobilise national stupidity while Labour laps up every ounce of political capital it can, we now return to the great tax debate
- 4 December 2012
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