Carswell has also been at loggerheads with Ukip's hierarchy over his insistence on not claiming all the parliamentary subsidies the party is now entitled to.
He concedes that life became more and more difficult and that "within a couple of years I was clearly at loggerheads with the main government".
Yet the piece presents two arguments that work at startling loggerheads.
In recent months, the GOP has sought to undermine the talks while positioning itself as a close ally of Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu – who has been at loggerheads with Obama over US efforts to secure a nuclear deal with Iran's.
Labor MPs have been at public loggerheads in recent weeks ahead of the party's national conference in July about whether or not ALP parliamentarians should be "bound" during any forthcoming marriage equality vote rather than voting on the issue according to conscience, which is the current policy.
The Syriza-led coalition has been at loggerheads with the so-called Troika of the International Monetary Fund, the European Central Bank and the European Union since coming to power in late January.
The NEC is at loggerheads with Mr Holmes, and efforts will be made to patch up the feud on January 22. "Like the Green party in 1989 [when it did well in the Euro-elections] we are experiencing growing pains," said Mr Farage.
Oh, and deep down the British government does not think it will work.The stage is set for a very nasty crisis, in which France and Britain will be at loggerheads.
Even better was the fact that the United States and the European Union, the world's biggest traders, so often at loggerheads in the past, worked in close alliance at Doha.
The United States has not been at loggerheads with Russia and China simultaneously since Nixon's visit to China in 1972.
Yet Mr Maliki may well keep his job; thanks to the Sadrists' extra clout in parliament, they want more ministries.Moreover, the Sadrists are perpetually at loggerheads with the Americans and British, often because one or other of their clerics gets arrested for allegedly organising attacks on foreign troops.
