2012-08-13
"Evil & corruption was everywhere" says the Pope's former butler, Paolo Gabriele This naïve yet probably honest man actually thought...
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...
2012-11-23
The management of the Church of England, (Archie Bishes, Bishes etc.) has clearly revealed its true nature. They are political...
2015-03-29
From Irish RTE TV channel program called The Meaning of Life. Q "What would you say to god if he...
2013-09-16
Party conference poppycock 2013 Part 1 - the Lib Dems. Vince Cable Business Minister, remember him? He 's the chap...
2011-10-19
Update January 2025: I originally posted this in 2011 which was about ministerial corruption in government. This 'news' was the...
2021-01-13
"No one is above the law"; if only that were true... I quote Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the United States...
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...
2022-08-12
Water privatisation? Thatcher's legacy? Gimme strength! All of us should understand why we are in such a mess with our...
2014-03-13
Ed Miliband as leader of the Labour Party? Ed Miliband has never found his way into our hearts since becoming...
2016-02-19
Everyone I meet who is even minimally interested in the EU, knows that Cameraman's EU negotiations have been pointless from...
2011-08-18
I find David Starkey an interesting man in many ways and admire his perspective on today's events. I love hearing...
2016-09-09
Oh I know the title of this piece is a bit Daily Mail! But, while the press & TV concentrate on...
2023-06-23
A few facts about bank interest rates 'Like most people of my generation who have lived through the period of...
2019-10-31
Yippeee! Another general election ;-) the third since the five year fixed term parliament act came into err "force" in...
2014-02-18
Ariel Sharon's recent death marked the end of what was the last slim best chance for a solution to the...
2014-05-27
What we the people have said is what none of those in power want to hear. Our "None of the...
2013-09-13
Here are two items of ground breaking news that you will not find mentioned at all on the BBC. French...
2013-07-19
... Congregation of the Sisters of Mercy, the Religious Sisters of Charity and the Sisters of the Good Shepherd say...
2012-03-03
Here we go again, what is it with our politicians How can they be so consistently stupid? Privatisation may be...
2011-05-18
Tory government's privatisation plans to free ministers from blame for NHS failures The NHS "reforms" proposed by the new Tory...
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...
2010-02-10
BBC – Have Your Say debate Should there be more religion on tv? Wednesday, 10 February, 2010, 14:38 A question,...
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...
2024-07-26
The creation of GB Energy sounds like a very positive move from by new Labour government, and indeed it should...
2025-01-22
I am saddened that we have to discuss Elon Musk who has rapidly become a severe danger to us all,...
2011-06-06
Remember this from our mate Dave? (Tory Conference - October 2009 - full text here) "It means showing that we're all...
2024-12-10
Available in paperback, hardback, Audible and Kindle versions on Amazon. This is for those of you who have not bought...
2019-04-29
There are a few simple truths at the heart of our disillusion with politics & politicians No political party has...
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:...
2017-10-31
Such an important issue this, as is evidenced on front pages everywhere and QuestionTime on BBC 1 last Thursday. Opinions...
2016-01-20
Peter Brookes said it beautifully in his cartoon printed six weeks before Saudi Arabia executed 45 'enemies of state'. I...
2013-09-01
Can it really be that politicians are listening to the people? It may just be so here in the UK...
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...
2018-09-21
I thank Gary Barker for permission to use this cartoon[/caption] The BBC's ridiculous pro-Remain stance is irritating enough, but the...
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,...
2012-08-08
"The Lords Reform Bill is dead." says Cameraman Senior. "Oh no it isn't!" says Cleggy Minor ... The rowdy delinquents...
2021-08-17
At last! Some objective truth emerges from a USA president's lips. Biden just said that American troops would no longer...
2014-04-02
Nobody has 'agreed with Nick' for three years. Now, even Vince 'the' Cable has joined that club of pollishituns who...
2022-02-10
Today John Major slated the current Conservative government, for the second time, for its lies and hypocrisy. He is probably...
2019-07-29
Nigel's response to my letter is just underneath my response to his response. Dear Mr Huddleston Thank you for responding....
2024-08-14
The words below are all from We Own It, but this first paragraph is from me. I have supported 'We...
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...
2021-02-13
Time to act on China, I link to a Sunday Times article written in July 2020 A page or so...
2021-03-09
The media & our dear Aunty BBC explored Recently, the many difficult issues that the world continues to face have...
2011-11-18
I have no money but take my body if you must says David Cameraman ... In Berlin today Merkel will...
2012-08-20
Sorry - no jokes in this article - just had to write it because I cannot believe the shallow incompetence...
2011-07-12
All "bail outs" of failed economies in the Eurozone are prohibited by EU law, but … Did you know that...
2020-12-29
.. and what we should do about it in 2021. My sources are all blue, bold, italics and underlined. Clicking...
2019-09-15
Having just read the front page of today's Sunday Times, I just had to make this short comment on David...
2012-12-10
I speak as a Parish Councillor, the lowest cog in the administrative wheel that is local government in England. We...
2019-08-29
May I try to put the childish, irrelevant "furious backlash", as reported today by the BrBC (British Remoaning Broadcasting Corporation),...
2016-06-21
Today's Remain campaign sponsors are a financial gambler and a retail expansionist failure. I speak of George Soros and Terry...
2018-11-13
Whilst walking my dog this morning I had a chat with a fellow philosopher He is a bit younger than...
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...
2014-06-06
There is currently a daft & pointless row between Michael Gove (Education Secretary) and Theresa May (Home Secretary). [caption id="attachment_3466"...
2024-05-09
There is no simple solution because we have no charismatic, statesman-like politicians speaking common sense to the people; and we...
2024-01-21
My main message is that if we carry on with our current 'Party' based political system we speed up Britain's...
2011-10-28
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...
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...
2014-04-28
Following on from Tony Blair's lessons in how to be a successful polishitun, our Dave, the heir to Blair, has...
2024-05-23
One of my dear readers once called me prescient when I was writing years ago about the rise of Isis...
2017-10-11
Perhaps you may be wondering why the TV, radio and papers are so full of endless discussions about the need...
2018-12-05
A short constitutional overview A referendum is the most powerful democratic tool we have. It is, and was in 2016,...
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...
2012-05-26
Baldrick: "What I want to know Sir, is, before there was a Euro there were lots of different types of...
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...
2013-02-26
Apart from being good news for the £ (of which more later*), the lack of a majority for any one...
2012-09-03
The GCSE exam debacle continues. Many pupils who had been expecting a C grade were given a D as a...
2011-05-25
The media is all excited and discussing endlessly how Twitter is 'challenging the supremacy of conventional law'; so, once again...
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...
2024-02-02
Hi All This offer refers to 'British politics is broken, BUT, how we might just fix it'. The Kindle version...
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...
2011-05-01
BBC Sunday Program glossing over Popes as protectors of paedophile priests I listened with sad incredulity this morning to the...
2012-05-15
Seneca (4 - 65 BCE) "Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and...
2024-12-14
Prince Andrew's latest example of corruption has encouraged me to release another Chapter of my book 'British Politics is broken,...
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 -...
2022-09-03
China has been lambasting the west for at least thirty years We have been scared to death of upsetting them...
2015-10-20
This article is a timely update to one I wrote about the dangers of China in February 2014 China the...
2022-08-09
This post first appeared in 2021 and several more earlier should have alerted western governments to the danger that the...
2021-03-27
Words and their changed meaning The process of that change fascinates me. First we need a definition from the Oxford...
2014-07-28
Today the government is accepting applications for licenses to explore potential fracking sites. The contracts that will be eventually signed...
2019-07-14
My letter sent to our local MP sent today Dear Nigel Huddleston MP I have written to you before about...
2011-05-16
Daniel Hannan destroys Gordon Brown and he says it beautifully in the EU parliament. Just watch Brown squirm. ...not widely...
2012-10-14
EU now says it wants a federal Europe, controlled by the EU Last December I said there was no more...
2016-06-10
A few words of light relief and escape from the nauseating, banal utterances from both sides of the public EU...
2011-05-25
There was a discussion on the BBC Radio 4 'Today' program this morning which is probably the most important issue...
2023-09-12
Those words, from Ian Duncan Smith this morning, echo what I have been saying here on this blog for fourteen...
2011-10-06
The casual hypocrisy of George Osborne:- 09/01/2009 - "QE is the last resort of desperate governments when all other policies...
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...
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...
2023-01-13
My second book is the first to be published and is all about the danger that faith creates for society....
2012-10-06
May I present the latest example of the blitheringly obvious being missed by politicians and their slimy attempts to blame...
2012-02-15
Almost daily now, on the BBC, we hear religious leaders droning on about the importance of faith in our lives...
2016-06-15
Ever since I started this blog, some 8 years ago, I have written many posts urging us to leave the...
2014-11-25
In the UK we have private schools treated as charities for tax purposes for no good reason that most of...
2012-03-17
Margaret Thatcher had a secret meeting with Rupert Murdoch at Chequers weeks before his 1981 purchase of the Times newspapers,...