2019-09-15
Having just read the front page of today's Sunday Times, I just had to make this short comment on David...
2019-07-14
My letter sent to our local MP sent today Dear Nigel Huddleston MP I have written to you before about...
2022-08-09
This post first appeared in 2021 and several more earlier should have alerted western governments to the danger that the...
2017-01-24
The Supreme Court is today ruling on something that really does not matter very much to ‘we the people’. Lawyers,...
2012-05-26
Baldrick: "What I want to know Sir, is, before there was a Euro there were lots of different types of...
2015-03-13
In February 2015, Home Secretary Theresa May said ' ...authorities need to look at the ideology which drives young people...
2024-12-10
Available in paperback, hardback, Audible and Kindle versions on Amazon. This is for those of you who have not bought...
2011-05-01
BBC Sunday Program glossing over Popes as protectors of paedophile priests I listened with sad incredulity this morning to the...
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...
2011-08-18
I find David Starkey an interesting man in many ways and admire his perspective on today's events. I love hearing...
2014-04-10
MPs expenses scandal - Maria Miller Once again, we have been handled by the polishituns, and, to a lesser extent,...
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...
2016-06-26
... for our politicians to accept the reality of what the British people have told them. This result is quite...
2018-07-07
So now we know why she said and did nothing for the last two years. Saying nothing meant she avoided...
2011-10-28
Last night's Questiontime on BBC1 gave us that question - I have to say thanks to the gentleman who asked...
2012-03-19
This is yet more madness delivered by visionless, asset stripping, incompetents (AKA the Tory party) ...first OUR water, then OUR...
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...
2017-10-31
Such an important issue this, as is evidenced on front pages everywhere and QuestionTime on BBC 1 last Thursday. Opinions...
2019-10-31
Yippeee! Another general election ;-) the third since the five year fixed term parliament act came into err "force" in...
2012-08-20
Sorry - no jokes in this article - just had to write it because I cannot believe the shallow incompetence...
2018-11-06
I am quoting Daniel Hannan an MEP writing in the Telegraph (on-line) a few days ago. Daniel is a Conservative...
2012-03-03
Here we go again, what is it with our politicians How can they be so consistently stupid? Privatisation may be...
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 -...
2014-08-25
Charles, when prince of Wales said "Look chaps, when I ascend, the throne that is, I will sort this all...
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...
2011-11-18
I have no money but take my body if you must says David Cameraman ... In Berlin today Merkel will...
2018-03-20
As Nigel Farage has said today "We sold out fisheries when we joined the EEC and we’re selling them out...
2012-12-10
I speak as a Parish Councillor, the lowest cog in the administrative wheel that is local government in England. We...
2012-02-15
Almost daily now, on the BBC, we hear religious leaders droning on about the importance of faith in our lives...
2011-05-18
Tory government's privatisation plans to free ministers from blame for NHS failures The NHS "reforms" proposed by the new Tory...
2012-03-11
Osborne's gone NATS, selling our air to Germany Thatcher sold our water supply in 1989 which means that there can...
2015-12-01
... party politics! Party politics has stifled any adult discussion of the threat we face from IS (Islamic State). No,...
2013-01-11
Special relationship? Pah There is no special relationship In meBook, sadly as yet unpublished, I explain in some detail that...
2011-09-14
Even now, when it is obvious to everyone but politicians, journalists and most economists, that "bailouts" don't work - cannot work...
2013-09-01
Can it really be that politicians are listening to the people? It may just be so here in the UK...
2017-12-01
Your challenge, dear reader, is to guess which of these are fake news ;-) There will be prizes (but, see...
2012-02-02
Here is the latest in the long tradition of cock-ups by those who are paid to know better than 'we...
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,...
2016-06-15
Ever since I started this blog, some 8 years ago, I have written many posts urging us to leave the...
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...
2023-01-13
My second book is the first to be published and is all about the danger that faith creates for society....
2010-02-10
BBC – Have Your Say debate Should there be more religion on tv? Wednesday, 10 February, 2010, 14:38 A question,...
2015-07-24
Our Dave wants to defeat the poison of radical Islam, jolly good eh? Well, no, he still defends state funded...
2015-01-09
A terrorist attack at the Paris office of Charlie Hebdo, a French satirical magazine, left at least 12 people dead....
2017-09-23
"We are so sorry to have upset you Mr & Mrs EU, but now we see that your requests for...
2014-03-13
Ed Miliband as leader of the Labour Party? Ed Miliband has never found his way into our hearts since becoming...
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...
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...
2013-07-19
... Congregation of the Sisters of Mercy, the Religious Sisters of Charity and the Sisters of the Good Shepherd say...
2024-08-14
The words below are all from We Own It, but this first paragraph is from me. I have supported 'We...
2011-12-05
Name that gnome -> I am so very fed up with the utter nonsense that our political leaders are spouting...
2011-05-13
Supreme Court of Wisconsin “There is no such source and cause of strife, quarrel, fights, malignant opposition, persecution, and war,...
2024-12-14
Prince Andrew's latest example of corruption has encouraged me to release another Chapter of my book 'British Politics is broken,...
2016-06-21
Today's Remain campaign sponsors are a financial gambler and a retail expansionist failure. I speak of George Soros and Terry...
2012-05-15
Seneca (4 - 65 BCE) "Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and...
2011-05-25
The media is all excited and discussing endlessly how Twitter is 'challenging the supremacy of conventional law'; so, once again...
2023-10-09
The US and UK support for Israel is way past its sell by date. Biden's response of "unwavering support for...
2016-02-19
Everyone I meet who is even minimally interested in the EU, knows that Cameraman's EU negotiations have been pointless from...
2025-02-15
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...
2019-07-29
Nigel's response to my letter is just underneath my response to his response. Dear Mr Huddleston Thank you for responding....
2024-02-02
Hi All This offer refers to 'British politics is broken, BUT, how we might just fix it'. The Kindle version...
2024-01-21
My main message is that if we carry on with our current 'Party' based political system we speed up Britain's...
2014-04-28
Following on from Tony Blair's lessons in how to be a successful polishitun, our Dave, the heir to Blair, has...
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...
2016-09-09
Oh I know the title of this piece is a bit Daily Mail! But, while the press & TV concentrate on...
2022-09-03
China has been lambasting the west for at least thirty years We have been scared to death of upsetting them...
2013-09-13
Here are two items of ground breaking news that you will not find mentioned at all on the BBC. French...
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...
2021-02-13
Time to act on China, I link to a Sunday Times article written in July 2020 A page or so...
2018-03-22
There are no funny cartoons in this post, there are no jokes either. Just when I thought it couldn't get...
2011-11-13
Yes, I agree with you dear reader, the title of this piece is as unattractive and offensive as is this disgraceful...
2013-11-11
This was part of an Oxford Union debate 24th October 2013, where he discusses, among many other issues, the Common...
2021-01-13
"No one is above the law"; if only that were true... I quote Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the United States...
2013-08-20
Supreme Court of Wisconsin (1890) “There is no such source and cause of strife, quarrel, fights, malignant opposition, persecution, and...
2015-08-01
Our dumbed down BBC news A BBC reporter was interviewing one persistent, but unsuccessful, immigrant on the recent death of...
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...
2022-10-17
Liz Truss announces her resigantion - 46 days! Liz Truss's main features : [caption id="attachment_2937" align="alignright" width="201"] Liz Truss announces...
2021-08-17
At last! Some objective truth emerges from a USA president's lips. Biden just said that American troops would no longer...
2011-06-06
Remember this from our mate Dave? (Tory Conference - October 2009 - full text here) "It means showing that we're all...
2014-11-25
In the UK we have private schools treated as charities for tax purposes for no good reason that most of...
2024-06-23
Humanists UK teamed up with their Vice President Professor Alice Roberts to explore the humanist approach to life in their...
2013-08-28
It must be true - I read it in the Daily Mail ... ;-) This week Tony Blair has been...
2012-03-17
Margaret Thatcher had a secret meeting with Rupert Murdoch at Chequers weeks before his 1981 purchase of the Times newspapers,...
2019-04-29
There are a few simple truths at the heart of our disillusion with politics & politicians No political party has...
2012-11-23
The management of the Church of England, (Archie Bishes, Bishes etc.) has clearly revealed its true nature. They are political...
2024-05-23
One of my dear readers once called me prescient when I was writing years ago about the rise of Isis...
2012-10-06
May I present the latest example of the blitheringly obvious being missed by politicians and their slimy attempts to blame...
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...
2023-12-12
By 'the West' I mean the UK, the USA, the EU, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and quite a few other...
2014-06-06
There is currently a daft & pointless row between Michael Gove (Education Secretary) and Theresa May (Home Secretary). [caption id="attachment_3466"...
2020-03-10
For the last 40 years or so, China's financial, business, political and cultural effect on our world has been a...
2015-05-10
... so says the disgraced Jeremy Clarkson in yesterday's Sun newspaper (or so I am reliably informed by the Today...
2020-01-26
Reading the news, since the 12th December2019 election, has been quite illuminating but equally depressing. I'm not talking about global...
2024-10-03
The world news is reporting on little more than madness and tragedy. But the the way the news on the...
2013-09-16
Party conference poppycock 2013 Part 1 - the Lib Dems. Vince Cable Business Minister, remember him? He 's the chap...
2015-07-08
At London Conference of 1953, the Greek Minister of Finance signed a treaty agreeing to cancel 50% of Germany’s debt!...
2018-11-13
Whilst walking my dog this morning I had a chat with a fellow philosopher He is a bit younger than...
2016-06-10
A few words of light relief and escape from the nauseating, banal utterances from both sides of the public EU...
2019-09-04
Politics used to mean "Of the people for the people". Politics now means "Of the MPs and for the MPs"....
2018-12-11
Andy Serkis' video shows Theresa Gollum May debating with her dark side. Her Brexit deal was her 'precious'. So good -...