2020-03-10
For the last 40 years or so, China's financial, business, political and cultural effect on our world has been a...
2011-10-06
The casual hypocrisy of George Osborne:- 09/01/2009 - "QE is the last resort of desperate governments when all other policies...
2011-05-20
The inherent pointlessness of party politicians Prime Minister's Questions ('PMQs') this week , Wednesday 12:00 - 12:30, demonstrated perfectly all...
2011-10-28
Last night's Questiontime on BBC1 gave us that question - I have to say thanks to the gentleman who asked...
2016-06-15
Ever since I started this blog, some 8 years ago, I have written many posts urging us to leave the...
2012-08-13
"Evil & corruption was everywhere" says the Pope's former butler, Paolo Gabriele This naïve yet probably honest man actually thought...
2018-03-20
As Nigel Farage has said today "We sold out fisheries when we joined the EEC and we’re selling them out...
2015-05-10
... so says the disgraced Jeremy Clarkson in yesterday's Sun newspaper (or so I am reliably informed by the Today...
2015-08-01
Our dumbed down BBC news A BBC reporter was interviewing one persistent, but unsuccessful, immigrant on the recent death of...
2013-10-01
I was going to pontificate on each conference but slowly lost the will to live as the weeks went on...
2012-03-11
Osborne's gone NATS, selling our air to Germany Thatcher sold our water supply in 1989 which means that there can...
2013-09-16
Party conference poppycock 2013 Part 1 - the Lib Dems. Vince Cable Business Minister, remember him? He 's the chap...
2019-09-04
Politics used to mean "Of the people for the people". Politics now means "Of the MPs and for the MPs"....
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...
2021-03-09
The media & our dear Aunty BBC explored Recently, the many difficult issues that the world continues to face have...
2021-02-13
Time to act on China, I link to a Sunday Times article written in July 2020 A page or so...
2018-11-13
Whilst walking my dog this morning I had a chat with a fellow philosopher He is a bit younger than...
2013-11-11
This was part of an Oxford Union debate 24th October 2013, where he discusses, among many other issues, the Common...
2011-06-04
Sub-title: Sell your Chinese 'Emerging Market' stocks soon - you heard it here first. 8-O It hasn't rained much this...
2019-04-29
There are a few simple truths at the heart of our disillusion with politics & politicians No political party has...
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...
2021-08-17
At last! Some objective truth emerges from a USA president's lips. Biden just said that American troops would no longer...
2011-09-14
Even now, when it is obvious to everyone but politicians, journalists and most economists, that "bailouts" don't work - cannot work...
2015-12-01
... party politics! Party politics has stifled any adult discussion of the threat we face from IS (Islamic State). No,...
2021-01-13
"No one is above the law"; if only that were true... I quote Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the United States...
2018-07-07
So now we know why she said and did nothing for the last two years. Saying nothing meant she avoided...
2018-06-26
The words anti-Semitism and anti-Semitic suffer from obfuscation (lies), misdirection and at its very heart, an absence of a rational...
2019-08-09
Here is Pat Condell, a man even grumpier than me - eight minutes of well argued grumpiness explaining why he,...
2014-02-18
Ariel Sharon's recent death marked the end of what was the last slim best chance for a solution to the...
2012-09-03
The GCSE exam debacle continues. Many pupils who had been expecting a C grade were given a D as a...
2021-03-27
Words and their changed meaning The process of that change fascinates me. First we need a definition from the Oxford...
2015-08-14
I am greatly amused by the frantic anti Jeremy Corbyn campaign being waged by the other three Labour party leadership...
2011-05-13
Supreme Court of Wisconsin “There is no such source and cause of strife, quarrel, fights, malignant opposition, persecution, and war,...
2011-05-01
BBC Sunday Program glossing over Popes as protectors of paedophile priests I listened with sad incredulity this morning to the...
2016-02-19
Everyone I meet who is even minimally interested in the EU, knows that Cameraman's EU negotiations have been pointless from...
2019-10-31
Yippeee! Another general election ;-) the third since the five year fixed term parliament act came into err "force" in...
2011-07-17
This is the first of a new series of posts pointing out the obvious hypocrisy of politicians that most people don't have time...
2018-03-22
There are no funny cartoons in this post, there are no jokes either. Just when I thought it couldn't get...
2018-12-11
Andy Serkis' video shows Theresa Gollum May debating with her dark side. Her Brexit deal was her 'precious'. So good -...
2024-12-10
Available in paperback, hardback, Audible and Kindle versions on Amazon. This is for those of you who have not bought...
2020-06-24
I was going to entitle this article "The current BAME*1 game diversion". I changed the title using Greta Thunberg's words...
2015-07-08
At London Conference of 1953, the Greek Minister of Finance signed a treaty agreeing to cancel 50% of Germany’s debt!...
2012-02-02
Here is the latest in the long tradition of cock-ups by those who are paid to know better than 'we...
2011-08-18
I find David Starkey an interesting man in many ways and admire his perspective on today's events. I love hearing...
2014-08-25
Charles, when prince of Wales said "Look chaps, when I ascend, the throne that is, I will sort this all...
2018-12-05
A short constitutional overview A referendum is the most powerful democratic tool we have. It is, and was in 2016,...
2023-10-09
The US and UK support for Israel is way past its sell by date. Biden's response of "unwavering support for...
2017-09-23
"We are so sorry to have upset you Mr & Mrs EU, but now we see that your requests for...
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...
2016-01-20
Peter Brookes said it beautifully in his cartoon printed six weeks before Saudi Arabia executed 45 'enemies of state'. I...
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:...
2024-08-14
The words below are all from We Own It, but this first paragraph is from me. I have supported 'We...
2013-06-02
Muslim nutter calmly murders soldier Those chilling words spoken to camera by the calm murderer of a British soldier in...
2011-10-19
Update January 2025: I originally posted this in 2011 which was about ministerial corruption in government. This 'news' was the...
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...
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...
2015-07-24
Our Dave wants to defeat the poison of radical Islam, jolly good eh? Well, no, he still defends state funded...
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...
2016-09-09
Oh I know the title of this piece is a bit Daily Mail! But, while the press & TV concentrate on...
2012-05-26
Baldrick: "What I want to know Sir, is, before there was a Euro there were lots of different types of...
2025-03-01
Apologies if you have seen this but I hope you all watch their YouTube Fact Check where they expose thousands...
2024-06-23
Humanists UK teamed up with their Vice President Professor Alice Roberts to explore the humanist approach to life in their...
2012-05-15
Seneca (4 - 65 BCE) "Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and...
2011-06-06
Remember this from our mate Dave? (Tory Conference - October 2009 - full text here) "It means showing that we're all...
2013-02-26
Apart from being good news for the £ (of which more later*), the lack of a majority for any one...
2012-08-20
Sorry - no jokes in this article - just had to write it because I cannot believe the shallow incompetence...
2013-08-28
It must be true - I read it in the Daily Mail ... ;-) This week Tony Blair has been...
2011-05-16
Daniel Hannan destroys Gordon Brown and he says it beautifully in the EU parliament. Just watch Brown squirm. ...not widely...
2018-11-06
I am quoting Daniel Hannan an MEP writing in the Telegraph (on-line) a few days ago. Daniel is a Conservative...
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...
2013-09-13
Here are two items of ground breaking news that you will not find mentioned at all on the BBC. French...
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...
2024-12-14
Prince Andrew's latest example of corruption has encouraged me to release another Chapter of my book 'British Politics is broken,...
2011-07-12
All "bail outs" of failed economies in the Eurozone are prohibited by EU law, but … Did you know that...
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...
2019-08-29
May I try to put the childish, irrelevant "furious backlash", as reported today by the BrBC (British Remoaning Broadcasting Corporation),...
2015-10-20
This article is a timely update to one I wrote about the dangers of China in February 2014 China the...
2020-01-26
Reading the news, since the 12th December2019 election, has been quite illuminating but equally depressing. I'm not talking about global...
2016-06-21
Today's Remain campaign sponsors are a financial gambler and a retail expansionist failure. I speak of George Soros and Terry...
2014-06-06
There is currently a daft & pointless row between Michael Gove (Education Secretary) and Theresa May (Home Secretary). [caption id="attachment_3466"...
2023-06-23
A few facts about bank interest rates 'Like most people of my generation who have lived through the period of...
2024-02-02
Hi All This offer refers to 'British politics is broken, BUT, how we might just fix it'. The Kindle version...
2013-01-11
Special relationship? Pah There is no special relationship In meBook, sadly as yet unpublished, I explain in some detail that...
2012-02-15
Almost daily now, on the BBC, we hear religious leaders droning on about the importance of faith in our lives...
2015-01-20
As the old joke goes "Is the Pope a Catholic?" in other words, the answer to the question just asked...
2014-04-10
MPs expenses scandal - Maria Miller Once again, we have been handled by the polishituns, and, to a lesser extent,...
2022-09-03
China has been lambasting the west for at least thirty years We have been scared to death of upsetting them...
2014-07-28
Today the government is accepting applications for licenses to explore potential fracking sites. The contracts that will be eventually signed...
2023-09-12
Those words, from Ian Duncan Smith this morning, echo what I have been saying here on this blog for fourteen...
2013-07-19
... Congregation of the Sisters of Mercy, the Religious Sisters of Charity and the Sisters of the Good Shepherd say...
2017-06-04
Theresa May is robotic in her endless "strong & stable" meanderings containing little detail and has no interesting vision for Britain. She...
2012-03-17
Margaret Thatcher had a secret meeting with Rupert Murdoch at Chequers weeks before his 1981 purchase of the Times newspapers,...
2020-12-29
.. and what we should do about it in 2021. My sources are all blue, bold, italics and underlined. Clicking...
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...
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...
2025-01-22
I am saddened that we have to discuss Elon Musk who has rapidly become a severe danger to us all,...
2010-02-10
BBC – Have Your Say debate Should there be more religion on tv? Wednesday, 10 February, 2010, 14:38 A question,...
2022-02-10
Today John Major slated the current Conservative government, for the second time, for its lies and hypocrisy. He is probably...
2016-06-26
... for our politicians to accept the reality of what the British people have told them. This result is quite...
2025-02-15
Trump has appeased Putin because he has no understanding of history or Putin's real ambition. [caption id="attachment_3620" align="alignleft" width="359"] Scary...