2011-08-06
The AAA rating, by Mr Micawber's definition (and that of reality and your grandmother) is earned when your income just exceeds your...
2011-11-18
I have no money but take my body if you must says David Cameraman ... In Berlin today Merkel will...
2019-08-09
Here is Pat Condell, a man even grumpier than me - eight minutes of well argued grumpiness explaining why he,...
2016-01-20
Peter Brookes said it beautifully in his cartoon printed six weeks before Saudi Arabia executed 45 'enemies of state'. I...
2024-06-23
Humanists UK teamed up with their Vice President Professor Alice Roberts to explore the humanist approach to life in their...
2016-06-15
Ever since I started this blog, some 8 years ago, I have written many posts urging us to leave the...
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...
2015-10-20
This article is a timely update to one I wrote about the dangers of China in February 2014 China the...
2013-06-02
Muslim nutter calmly murders soldier Those chilling words spoken to camera by the calm murderer of a British soldier in...
2024-05-23
One of my dear readers once called me prescient when I was writing years ago about the rise of Isis...
2019-07-29
Nigel's response to my letter is just underneath my response to his response. Dear Mr Huddleston Thank you for responding....
2017-06-04
Theresa May is robotic in her endless "strong & stable" meanderings containing little detail and has no interesting vision for Britain. She...
2012-08-08
"The Lords Reform Bill is dead." says Cameraman Senior. "Oh no it isn't!" says Cleggy Minor ... The rowdy delinquents...
2020-03-10
For the last 40 years or so, China's financial, business, political and cultural effect on our world has been a...
2023-11-13
Just when I thought it couldn't get more improbable and worse, it did. [caption id="attachment_3024" align="alignright" width="500"] I disagree -...
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...
2011-10-19
Update January 2025: I originally posted this in 2011 which was about ministerial corruption in government. This 'news' was the...
2013-09-01
Can it really be that politicians are listening to the people? It may just be so here in the UK...
2016-09-09
Oh I know the title of this piece is a bit Daily Mail! But, while the press & TV concentrate on...
2024-12-10
Available in paperback, hardback, Audible and Kindle versions on Amazon. This is for those of you who have not bought...
2011-07-12
All "bail outs" of failed economies in the Eurozone are prohibited by EU law, but … Did you know that...
2011-12-05
Name that gnome -> I am so very fed up with the utter nonsense that our political leaders are spouting...
2012-03-19
This is yet more madness delivered by visionless, asset stripping, incompetents (AKA the Tory party) ...first OUR water, then OUR...
2011-05-25
The media is all excited and discussing endlessly how Twitter is 'challenging the supremacy of conventional law'; so, once again...
2015-09-23
I summarise some recent news and offer a long term solution as human misery is being played out at Europe's...
2010-02-10
BBC – Have Your Say debate Should there be more religion on tv? Wednesday, 10 February, 2010, 14:38 A question,...
2015-03-13
In February 2015, Home Secretary Theresa May said ' ...authorities need to look at the ideology which drives young people...
2022-02-10
Today John Major slated the current Conservative government, for the second time, for its lies and hypocrisy. He is probably...
2017-09-23
"We are so sorry to have upset you Mr & Mrs EU, but now we see that your requests for...
2014-05-27
What we the people have said is what none of those in power want to hear. Our "None of the...
2019-10-31
Yippeee! Another general election ;-) the third since the five year fixed term parliament act came into err "force" in...
2021-01-13
"No one is above the law"; if only that were true... I quote Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the United States...
2014-06-06
There is currently a daft & pointless row between Michael Gove (Education Secretary) and Theresa May (Home Secretary). [caption id="attachment_3466"...
2011-05-16
Daniel Hannan destroys Gordon Brown and he says it beautifully in the EU parliament. Just watch Brown squirm. ...not widely...
2013-08-20
Supreme Court of Wisconsin (1890) “There is no such source and cause of strife, quarrel, fights, malignant opposition, persecution, and...
2014-08-25
Charles, when prince of Wales said "Look chaps, when I ascend, the throne that is, I will sort this all...
2022-08-12
Water privatisation? Thatcher's legacy? Gimme strength! All of us should understand why we are in such a mess with our...
2013-07-19
... Congregation of the Sisters of Mercy, the Religious Sisters of Charity and the Sisters of the Good Shepherd say...
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...
2011-05-13
Supreme Court of Wisconsin “There is no such source and cause of strife, quarrel, fights, malignant opposition, persecution, and war,...
2011-05-18
Tory government's privatisation plans to free ministers from blame for NHS failures The NHS "reforms" proposed by the new Tory...
2019-04-29
There are a few simple truths at the heart of our disillusion with politics & politicians No political party has...
2012-02-15
Almost daily now, on the BBC, we hear religious leaders droning on about the importance of faith in our lives...
2011-11-13
Yes, I agree with you dear reader, the title of this piece is as unattractive and offensive as is this disgraceful...
2018-07-07
So now we know why she said and did nothing for the last two years. Saying nothing meant she avoided...
2012-03-03
Here we go again, what is it with our politicians How can they be so consistently stupid? Privatisation may be...
2015-01-09
A terrorist attack at the Paris office of Charlie Hebdo, a French satirical magazine, left at least 12 people dead....
2024-01-21
My main message is that if we carry on with our current 'Party' based political system we speed up Britain's...
2011-10-06
The casual hypocrisy of George Osborne:- 09/01/2009 - "QE is the last resort of desperate governments when all other policies...
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...
2013-08-28
It must be true - I read it in the Daily Mail ... ;-) This week Tony Blair has been...
2011-08-18
I find David Starkey an interesting man in many ways and admire his perspective on today's events. I love hearing...
2015-07-08
At London Conference of 1953, the Greek Minister of Finance signed a treaty agreeing to cancel 50% of Germany’s debt!...
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...
2014-04-02
Nobody has 'agreed with Nick' for three years. Now, even Vince 'the' Cable has joined that club of pollishituns who...
2021-03-27
Words and their changed meaning The process of that change fascinates me. First we need a definition from the Oxford...
2020-12-29
.. and what we should do about it in 2021. My sources are all blue, bold, italics and underlined. Clicking...
2011-05-25
There was a discussion on the BBC Radio 4 'Today' program this morning which is probably the most important issue...
2014-02-18
Ariel Sharon's recent death marked the end of what was the last slim best chance for a solution to the...
2013-09-16
Party conference poppycock 2013 Part 1 - the Lib Dems. Vince Cable Business Minister, remember him? He 's the chap...
2012-09-03
The GCSE exam debacle continues. Many pupils who had been expecting a C grade were given a D as a...
2019-09-04
Politics used to mean "Of the people for the people". Politics now means "Of the MPs and for the MPs"....
2017-01-24
The Supreme Court is today ruling on something that really does not matter very much to ‘we the people’. Lawyers,...
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...
2013-10-01
I was going to pontificate on each conference but slowly lost the will to live as the weeks went on...
2015-01-20
As the old joke goes "Is the Pope a Catholic?" in other words, the answer to the question just asked...
2016-06-26
... for our politicians to accept the reality of what the British people have told them. This result is quite...
2016-06-10
A few words of light relief and escape from the nauseating, banal utterances from both sides of the public EU...
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...
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...
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...
2016-08-21
...for someone to bring philosophical and visionary leadership to post Brexit Britain. Don't get me wrong, I am a Britain first,...
2018-03-20
As Nigel Farage has said today "We sold out fisheries when we joined the EEC and we’re selling them out...
2012-10-14
EU now says it wants a federal Europe, controlled by the EU Last December I said there was no more...
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:...
2015-08-14
I am greatly amused by the frantic anti Jeremy Corbyn campaign being waged by the other three Labour party leadership...
2014-09-12
Or, if you do then you are wilfully misleading the people you lead and represent. Obama has just said in...
2019-09-15
Having just read the front page of today's Sunday Times, I just had to make this short comment on David...
2018-11-06
I am quoting Daniel Hannan an MEP writing in the Telegraph (on-line) a few days ago. Daniel is a Conservative...
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...
2014-03-13
Ed Miliband as leader of the Labour Party? Ed Miliband has never found his way into our hearts since becoming...
2011-10-28
Last night's Questiontime on BBC1 gave us that question - I have to say thanks to the gentleman who asked...
2020-01-26
Reading the news, since the 12th December2019 election, has been quite illuminating but equally depressing. I'm not talking about global...
2023-10-09
The US and UK support for Israel is way past its sell by date. Biden's response of "unwavering support for...
2012-10-06
May I present the latest example of the blitheringly obvious being missed by politicians and their slimy attempts to blame...
2013-09-13
Here are two items of ground breaking news that you will not find mentioned at all on the BBC. French...
2025-03-01
Apologies if you have seen this but I hope you all watch their YouTube Fact Check where they expose thousands...
2022-08-09
This post first appeared in 2021 and several more earlier should have alerted western governments to the danger that the...
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...
2014-07-28
Today the government is accepting applications for licenses to explore potential fracking sites. The contracts that will be eventually signed...
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...
2015-07-24
Our Dave wants to defeat the poison of radical Islam, jolly good eh? Well, no, he still defends state funded...
2015-03-29
From Irish RTE TV channel program called The Meaning of Life. Q "What would you say to god if he...
2016-02-19
Everyone I meet who is even minimally interested in the EU, knows that Cameraman's EU negotiations have been pointless from...
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...
2012-05-15
Seneca (4 - 65 BCE) "Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and...
2012-08-13
"Evil & corruption was everywhere" says the Pope's former butler, Paolo Gabriele This naïve yet probably honest man actually thought...
2012-07-03
Bob Diamond resigns as CEO of Barclays Bank which itself has been, so far, fined an estimated £200 million by...
2023-01-13
My second book is the first to be published and is all about the danger that faith creates for society....
2018-11-13
Whilst walking my dog this morning I had a chat with a fellow philosopher He is a bit younger than...
Well, it could be interesting to hear what the PM says next week at Party Conference. He needs a few pointers of positive action on China, to keep the Labour wolf from the door, next year.