There was a discussion on the BBC Radio 4 ‘Today’ program this morning which is probably the most important issue for Britain today and probably the world. (Blimey – pompous or what?) “A conference exploring ways to develop British manufacturing will be held at Cranfield University today. Sir Alan Rudge, chairman of the ERA Foundation which funds and advises technology research, and Justin Urquhart Stewart of Seven Investment Management, debate whether more manufacturing would heal our economy or simply serve
The media is all excited and discussing endlessly how Twitter is ‘challenging the supremacy of conventional law’; so, once again I am lost for words. The issue is not Twitter, or Giggs, or the F1 bloke who likes his prostitutes 3 at a time wearing Nazi helmets; it is that the the English legal system is being misused and corrupted by the rich to protect themselves from exposure from their own crass behaviour. Government is closing down the best bits of our
The inherent pointlessness of party politicians Prime Minister’s Questions (‘PMQs’) this week , Wednesday 12:00 – 12:30, demonstrated perfectly all the points that I have ever made (my book) about the inherent pointlessness of party politicians. “some rapes are not as serious as others” Ed Miliband made a skin crawling exhibition of himself when he accused the Justice Minister of saying that “some rapes are not as serious as others”. What Clarke had actually said, was that the law recognises different
Tory government’s privatisation plans to free ministers from blame for NHS failures The NHS “reforms” proposed by the new Tory government are not reforms, they are simply a politically expedient way to remove future responsibility from central government by putting private companies in charge. The same principle applies to the schools system started by that self-obsessed idiot Blair and continued by ‘gormless’ Gove and ‘Couldn’t care a less’ Cameron. All we hear from Cameron is how necessary the reforms are
Daniel Hannan destroys Gordon Brown and he says it beautifully in the EU parliament. Just watch Brown squirm. …not widely publicised at the time and if you have not seen this – it is a real treat! Most of what he says (and he says it beautifully!) is just as valid now as it was in 2009; enjoy!
BBC Sunday Program glossing over Popes as protectors of paedophile priests I listened with sad incredulity this morning to the BBC Radio 4 program “Sunday”. There was a half hearted attempt to expose the current & previous Popes as protectors of paedophile priests. Colm O’Gorman was invited to support the side of the abused thousands. He himself had been abused by a Catholic Priest. However, the two Catholic supporters in the studio attempted to explain away this unforgivable behaviour as
Republic’s goal is simple: replace the monarchy with an elected head of state and more democratic political system. Instead of a king, we want someone chosen by the people, not running the government but representing the nation independently of our politicians.
A monarchy should not exist in a democratic society. The majority of us believe in democracy, and think democracy makes for a fairer, more prosperous society. Who of us think the British version of democracy is working well?
Too much power in the hands of government, it’s too difficult to hold people to account We see corruption and cronyism everywhere, especially the Lords and in the honours system.
