‘INSPECtING the entrails’ is a time-honoured method of divination. However these days, due to health and safety, and to be honest the difficultly of procuring goats at short notice without arousing suspicion from the Morningside Neighbourhood Watch, it is necessary to deploy other less invasive methods of augury.
Therefore, the first thing I’ve done this month has been to observe keenly the posture of the so-called European Research Group (ERG) and their threats to challenge Theresa May, by sending four dozen letters to someone with a big safe. As has become evident they are a busted lush of empty windbags with basically no guts worth consulting and quite frankly I can see no future for them at all.