2021-05-21
The BBC and that Panorama interview Despite what Price William's statement today is trying to do, i.e. divert attention away...
2013-02-26
Apart from being good news for the £ (of which more later*), the lack of a majority for any one...
2014-04-02
Nobody has 'agreed with Nick' for three years. Now, even Vince 'the' Cable has joined that club of pollishituns who...
2017-09-23
"We are so sorry to have upset you Mr & Mrs EU, but now we see that your requests for...
2019-08-29
May I try to put the childish, irrelevant "furious backlash", as reported today by the BrBC (British Remoaning Broadcasting Corporation),...
2014-02-18
Ariel Sharon's recent death marked the end of what was the last slim best chance for a solution to the...
2017-12-30
Brexit hater-in-chief Andrew Adonis has finally left his cushy government job at the National Infrastructure Commission. A government source says:...
2021-03-09
The media & our dear Aunty BBC explored Recently, the many difficult issues that the world continues to face have...
2011-07-12
All "bail outs" of failed economies in the Eurozone are prohibited by EU law, but … Did you know that...
2023-01-13
My second book is the first to be published and is all about the danger that faith creates for society....
2011-05-20
The inherent pointlessness of party politicians Prime Minister's Questions ('PMQs') this week , Wednesday 12:00 - 12:30, demonstrated perfectly all...
2017-06-04
Theresa May is robotic in her endless "strong & stable" meanderings containing little detail and has no interesting vision for Britain. She...
2024-05-09
There is no simple solution because we have no charismatic, statesman-like politicians speaking common sense to the people; and we...
2013-07-19
... Congregation of the Sisters of Mercy, the Religious Sisters of Charity and the Sisters of the Good Shepherd say...
2023-10-09
The US and UK support for Israel is way past its sell by date. Biden's response of "unwavering support for...
2011-07-09
The main theme of my book is that "party" politics corrupts the decision making process in government thus ensuring that unforgivable errors are...
2015-08-01
Our dumbed down BBC news A BBC reporter was interviewing one persistent, but unsuccessful, immigrant on the recent death of...
2016-04-23
What a huge disappointment Obama is, I'm sure both to himself and to all those non-white Americans who had so...
2018-03-20
As Nigel Farage has said today "We sold out fisheries when we joined the EEC and we’re selling them out...
2011-05-25
There was a discussion on the BBC Radio 4 'Today' program this morning which is probably the most important issue...
2019-04-29
There are a few simple truths at the heart of our disillusion with politics & politicians No political party has...
2017-01-24
The Supreme Court is today ruling on something that really does not matter very much to ‘we the people’. Lawyers,...
2025-01-22
I am saddened that we have to discuss Elon Musk who has rapidly become a severe danger to us all,...
2012-03-19
This is yet more madness delivered by visionless, asset stripping, incompetents (AKA the Tory party) ...first OUR water, then OUR...
2011-10-06
The casual hypocrisy of George Osborne:- 09/01/2009 - "QE is the last resort of desperate governments when all other policies...
2011-06-06
Remember this from our mate Dave? (Tory Conference - October 2009 - full text here) "It means showing that we're all...
2019-07-29
Nigel's response to my letter is just underneath my response to his response. Dear Mr Huddleston Thank you for responding....
2015-07-24
Our Dave wants to defeat the poison of radical Islam, jolly good eh? Well, no, he still defends state funded...
2014-05-27
What we the people have said is what none of those in power want to hear. Our "None of the...
2013-06-02
Muslim nutter calmly murders soldier Those chilling words spoken to camera by the calm murderer of a British soldier in...
2015-01-20
As the old joke goes "Is the Pope a Catholic?" in other words, the answer to the question just asked...
2011-10-19
Update January 2025: I originally posted this in 2011 which was about ministerial corruption in government. This 'news' was the...
2024-05-23
One of my dear readers once called me prescient when I was writing years ago about the rise of Isis...
2015-05-10
... so says the disgraced Jeremy Clarkson in yesterday's Sun newspaper (or so I am reliably informed by the Today...
2022-08-12
Water privatisation? Thatcher's legacy? Gimme strength! All of us should understand why we are in such a mess with our...
2011-05-16
Daniel Hannan destroys Gordon Brown and he says it beautifully in the EU parliament. Just watch Brown squirm. ...not widely...
2013-09-01
Can it really be that politicians are listening to the people? It may just be so here in the UK...
2011-05-25
The media is all excited and discussing endlessly how Twitter is 'challenging the supremacy of conventional law'; so, once again...
2012-03-17
Margaret Thatcher had a secret meeting with Rupert Murdoch at Chequers weeks before his 1981 purchase of the Times newspapers,...
2012-09-03
The GCSE exam debacle continues. Many pupils who had been expecting a C grade were given a D as a...
2013-01-11
Special relationship? Pah There is no special relationship In meBook, sadly as yet unpublished, I explain in some detail that...
2024-01-21
My main message is that if we carry on with our current 'Party' based political system we speed up Britain's...
2014-03-24
The enquiry under Sir John Chilcot set up in 2009 has yet to report. The total expenditure since 2009 is £7,479,400, and...
2011-05-18
Tory government's privatisation plans to free ministers from blame for NHS failures The NHS "reforms" proposed by the new Tory...
2024-12-14
Prince Andrew's latest example of corruption has encouraged me to release another Chapter of my book 'British Politics is broken,...
2012-11-23
The management of the Church of England, (Archie Bishes, Bishes etc.) has clearly revealed its true nature. They are political...
2016-02-19
Everyone I meet who is even minimally interested in the EU, knows that Cameraman's EU negotiations have been pointless from...
2025-03-01
Apologies if you have seen this but I hope you all watch their YouTube Fact Check where they expose thousands...
2013-09-16
Party conference poppycock 2013 Part 1 - the Lib Dems. Vince Cable Business Minister, remember him? He 's the chap...
2012-05-15
Seneca (4 - 65 BCE) "Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and...
2015-09-23
I summarise some recent news and offer a long term solution as human misery is being played out at Europe's...
2012-10-14
EU now says it wants a federal Europe, controlled by the EU Last December I said there was no more...
2015-04-14
[caption id="attachment_3488" align="alignright" width="400"] The Home Secretary, Theresa May, has insisted that plans to extend "Right to Buy" to tenants...
2019-01-28
On 16 August 1819 Mary Fildes and members of the Female Reform Society marched to St.Peter’s Fields in the centre...
2021-03-27
Words and their changed meaning The process of that change fascinates me. First we need a definition from the Oxford...
2024-02-02
Hi All This offer refers to 'British politics is broken, BUT, how we might just fix it'. The Kindle version...
2016-06-26
... for our politicians to accept the reality of what the British people have told them. This result is quite...
2013-09-13
Here are two items of ground breaking news that you will not find mentioned at all on the BBC. French...
2012-03-11
Osborne's gone NATS, selling our air to Germany Thatcher sold our water supply in 1989 which means that there can...
2015-08-19
This piece has been coming for a while now. Recent the new Fox hunting bill, and the Scottish National Party's...
2012-02-02
Here is the latest in the long tradition of cock-ups by those who are paid to know better than 'we...
2020-12-29
.. and what we should do about it in 2021. My sources are all blue, bold, italics and underlined. Clicking...
2024-10-03
The world news is reporting on little more than madness and tragedy. But the the way the news on the...
2012-02-15
Almost daily now, on the BBC, we hear religious leaders droning on about the importance of faith in our lives...
2019-01-12
There are many serious and rational voices in support of a No Deal, despite the BBC's overwhelming Project Fear coverage, and, to...
2022-08-09
This post first appeared in 2021 and several more earlier should have alerted western governments to the danger that the...
2014-07-28
Today the government is accepting applications for licenses to explore potential fracking sites. The contracts that will be eventually signed...
2016-06-15
Ever since I started this blog, some 8 years ago, I have written many posts urging us to leave the...
2013-12-17
Air traffic requirements for Britain are today's PoliNews*1 subject and, for once, Boris is right. Follow the link to the...
2011-08-18
I find David Starkey an interesting man in many ways and admire his perspective on today's events. I love hearing...
2019-10-31
Yippeee! Another general election ;-) the third since the five year fixed term parliament act came into err "force" in...
2014-02-26
China's economic miracle is to be feared Everywhere I look in today's news, I see that few see China, as...
2020-03-10
For the last 40 years or so, China's financial, business, political and cultural effect on our world has been a...
2014-09-12
Or, if you do then you are wilfully misleading the people you lead and represent. Obama has just said in...
2011-09-14
Even now, when it is obvious to everyone but politicians, journalists and most economists, that "bailouts" don't work - cannot work...
2024-12-10
Available in paperback, hardback, Audible and Kindle versions on Amazon. This is for those of you who have not bought...
2012-08-08
"The Lords Reform Bill is dead." says Cameraman Senior. "Oh no it isn't!" says Cleggy Minor ... The rowdy delinquents...
2011-11-13
Yes, I agree with you dear reader, the title of this piece is as unattractive and offensive as is this disgraceful...
2016-09-15
This is a truly appalling and criminally incompetent decision by Theresa May. Thirty odd years of indecision and delay in addressing our...
2015-10-20
This article is a timely update to one I wrote about the dangers of China in February 2014 China the...
2018-09-21
I thank Gary Barker for permission to use this cartoon[/caption] The BBC's ridiculous pro-Remain stance is irritating enough, but the...
2016-06-10
A few words of light relief and escape from the nauseating, banal utterances from both sides of the public EU...
2014-03-13
Ed Miliband as leader of the Labour Party? Ed Miliband has never found his way into our hearts since becoming...
2015-03-29
From Irish RTE TV channel program called The Meaning of Life. Q "What would you say to god if he...
2013-02-12
[caption id="attachment_3145" align="alignright" width="300"] The 11th commandment:- Thou shall not see. Thanks to Gary Barker for his apt caricature of...
2013-10-01
I was going to pontificate on each conference but slowly lost the will to live as the weeks went on...
2011-12-05
Name that gnome -> I am so very fed up with the utter nonsense that our political leaders are spouting...
2014-08-25
Charles, when prince of Wales said "Look chaps, when I ascend, the throne that is, I will sort this all...
2020-01-26
Reading the news, since the 12th December2019 election, has been quite illuminating but equally depressing. I'm not talking about global...
2011-05-13
Supreme Court of Wisconsin “There is no such source and cause of strife, quarrel, fights, malignant opposition, persecution, and war,...
2014-06-06
There is currently a daft & pointless row between Michael Gove (Education Secretary) and Theresa May (Home Secretary). [caption id="attachment_3466"...
2017-10-31
Such an important issue this, as is evidenced on front pages everywhere and QuestionTime on BBC 1 last Thursday. Opinions...
2011-10-28
Last night's Questiontime on BBC1 gave us that question - I have to say thanks to the gentleman who asked...
2016-08-25
... when it gives us the wrong answer, or so it seems ;-) [caption id="attachment_3402" align="alignright" width="300"] The following quote...
2019-09-15
Having just read the front page of today's Sunday Times, I just had to make this short comment on David...
2018-03-22
There are no funny cartoons in this post, there are no jokes either. Just when I thought it couldn't get...
2018-07-07
So now we know why she said and did nothing for the last two years. Saying nothing meant she avoided...
2019-02-25
It is not about you MPs - it is about the 17.4 million of us! The sight of those silly...
2012-12-10
I speak as a Parish Councillor, the lowest cog in the administrative wheel that is local government in England. We...
2012-07-03
Bob Diamond resigns as CEO of Barclays Bank which itself has been, so far, fined an estimated £200 million by...