2014-08-25
Charles, when prince of Wales said "Look chaps, when I ascend, the throne that is, I will sort this all...
2012-05-15
Seneca (4 - 65 BCE) "Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and...
2016-09-09
Oh I know the title of this piece is a bit Daily Mail! But, while the press & TV concentrate on...
2015-05-10
... so says the disgraced Jeremy Clarkson in yesterday's Sun newspaper (or so I am reliably informed by the Today...
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...
2011-05-20
The inherent pointlessness of party politicians Prime Minister's Questions ('PMQs') this week , Wednesday 12:00 - 12:30, demonstrated perfectly all...
2011-06-04
Sub-title: Sell your Chinese 'Emerging Market' stocks soon - you heard it here first. 8-O It hasn't rained much this...
2015-01-20
As the old joke goes "Is the Pope a Catholic?" in other words, the answer to the question just asked...
2024-05-23
One of my dear readers once called me prescient when I was writing years ago about the rise of Isis...
2022-02-10
Today John Major slated the current Conservative government, for the second time, for its lies and hypocrisy. He is probably...
2013-09-16
Party conference poppycock 2013 Part 1 - the Lib Dems. Vince Cable Business Minister, remember him? He 's the chap...
2011-05-13
Supreme Court of Wisconsin “There is no such source and cause of strife, quarrel, fights, malignant opposition, persecution, and war,...
2023-01-13
My second book is the first to be published and is all about the danger that faith creates for society....
2013-07-19
... Congregation of the Sisters of Mercy, the Religious Sisters of Charity and the Sisters of the Good Shepherd say...
2015-08-19
This piece has been coming for a while now. Recent the new Fox hunting bill, and the Scottish National Party's...
2011-12-05
Name that gnome -> I am so very fed up with the utter nonsense that our political leaders are spouting...
2016-06-21
Today's Remain campaign sponsors are a financial gambler and a retail expansionist failure. I speak of George Soros and Terry...
2018-12-11
Andy Serkis' video shows Theresa Gollum May debating with her dark side. Her Brexit deal was her 'precious'. So good -...
2012-10-14
EU now says it wants a federal Europe, controlled by the EU Last December I said there was no more...
2019-04-29
There are a few simple truths at the heart of our disillusion with politics & politicians No political party has...
2016-01-20
Peter Brookes said it beautifully in his cartoon printed six weeks before Saudi Arabia executed 45 'enemies of state'. I...
2011-10-06
The casual hypocrisy of George Osborne:- 09/01/2009 - "QE is the last resort of desperate governments when all other policies...
2019-10-31
Yippeee! Another general election ;-) the third since the five year fixed term parliament act came into err "force" in...
2014-03-13
Ed Miliband as leader of the Labour Party? Ed Miliband has never found his way into our hearts since becoming...
2022-08-09
This post first appeared in 2021 and several more earlier should have alerted western governments to the danger that the...
2011-05-25
There was a discussion on the BBC Radio 4 'Today' program this morning which is probably the most important issue...
2024-02-02
Hi All This offer refers to 'British politics is broken, BUT, how we might just fix it'. The Kindle version...
2023-10-09
The US and UK support for Israel is way past its sell by date. Biden's response of "unwavering support for...
2014-02-18
Ariel Sharon's recent death marked the end of what was the last slim best chance for a solution to the...
2024-08-14
The words below are all from We Own It, but this first paragraph is from me. I have supported 'We...
2015-08-01
Our dumbed down BBC news A BBC reporter was interviewing one persistent, but unsuccessful, immigrant on the recent death of...
2024-10-03
The world news is reporting on little more than madness and tragedy. But the the way the news on the...
2023-06-23
A few facts about bank interest rates 'Like most people of my generation who have lived through the period of...
2018-11-06
I am quoting Daniel Hannan an MEP writing in the Telegraph (on-line) a few days ago. Daniel is a Conservative...
2015-10-20
This article is a timely update to one I wrote about the dangers of China in February 2014 China the...
2011-11-13
Yes, I agree with you dear reader, the title of this piece is as unattractive and offensive as is this disgraceful...
2012-03-03
Here we go again, what is it with our politicians How can they be so consistently stupid? Privatisation may be...
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...
2021-02-13
Time to act on China, I link to a Sunday Times article written in July 2020 A page or so...
2016-06-10
A few words of light relief and escape from the nauseating, banal utterances from both sides of the public EU...
2018-12-05
A short constitutional overview A referendum is the most powerful democratic tool we have. It is, and was in 2016,...
2011-05-25
The media is all excited and discussing endlessly how Twitter is 'challenging the supremacy of conventional law'; so, once again...
2017-10-31
Such an important issue this, as is evidenced on front pages everywhere and QuestionTime on BBC 1 last Thursday. Opinions...
2019-09-04
Politics used to mean "Of the people for the people". Politics now means "Of the MPs and for the MPs"....
2012-08-13
"Evil & corruption was everywhere" says the Pope's former butler, Paolo Gabriele This naïve yet probably honest man actually thought...
2012-03-11
Osborne's gone NATS, selling our air to Germany Thatcher sold our water supply in 1989 which means that there can...
2011-05-18
Tory government's privatisation plans to free ministers from blame for NHS failures The NHS "reforms" proposed by the new Tory...
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...
2014-04-02
Nobody has 'agreed with Nick' for three years. Now, even Vince 'the' Cable has joined that club of pollishituns who...
2015-07-24
Our Dave wants to defeat the poison of radical Islam, jolly good eh? Well, no, he still defends state funded...
2013-10-01
I was going to pontificate on each conference but slowly lost the will to live as the weeks went on...
2019-08-09
Here is Pat Condell, a man even grumpier than me - eight minutes of well argued grumpiness explaining why he,...
2012-03-25
'Marriage' is culturally defined as being between a man a woman This is prompted by Arch Bishop Sentamu's statement (27th...
2020-01-26
Reading the news, since the 12th December2019 election, has been quite illuminating but equally depressing. I'm not talking about global...
2020-03-10
For the last 40 years or so, China's financial, business, political and cultural effect on our world has been a...
2018-11-13
Whilst walking my dog this morning I had a chat with a fellow philosopher He is a bit younger than...
2021-08-17
At last! Some objective truth emerges from a USA president's lips. Biden just said that American troops would no longer...
2014-06-06
There is currently a daft & pointless row between Michael Gove (Education Secretary) and Theresa May (Home Secretary). [caption id="attachment_3466"...
2024-12-10
Available in paperback, hardback, Audible and Kindle versions on Amazon. This is for those of you who have not bought...
2021-03-09
The media & our dear Aunty BBC explored Recently, the many difficult issues that the world continues to face have...
2014-07-28
Today the government is accepting applications for licenses to explore potential fracking sites. The contracts that will be eventually signed...
2024-12-14
Prince Andrew's latest example of corruption has encouraged me to release another Chapter of my book 'British Politics is broken,...
2011-08-18
I find David Starkey an interesting man in many ways and admire his perspective on today's events. I love hearing...
2021-03-27
Words and their changed meaning The process of that change fascinates me. First we need a definition from the Oxford...
2013-11-11
This was part of an Oxford Union debate 24th October 2013, where he discusses, among many other issues, the Common...
2015-07-08
At London Conference of 1953, the Greek Minister of Finance signed a treaty agreeing to cancel 50% of Germany’s debt!...
2019-07-14
My letter sent to our local MP sent today Dear Nigel Huddleston MP I have written to you before about...
2022-09-03
China has been lambasting the west for at least thirty years We have been scared to death of upsetting them...
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...
2011-05-16
Daniel Hannan destroys Gordon Brown and he says it beautifully in the EU parliament. Just watch Brown squirm. ...not widely...
2013-01-11
Special relationship? Pah There is no special relationship In meBook, sadly as yet unpublished, I explain in some detail that...
2011-07-12
All "bail outs" of failed economies in the Eurozone are prohibited by EU law, but … Did you know that...
2018-03-20
As Nigel Farage has said today "We sold out fisheries when we joined the EEC and we’re selling them out...
2024-06-23
Humanists UK teamed up with their Vice President Professor Alice Roberts to explore the humanist approach to life in their...
2011-11-18
I have no money but take my body if you must says David Cameraman ... In Berlin today Merkel will...
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...
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...
2020-12-29
.. and what we should do about it in 2021. My sources are all blue, bold, italics and underlined. Clicking...
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...
2024-07-26
The creation of GB Energy sounds like a very positive move from by new Labour government, and indeed it should...
2023-12-12
By 'the West' I mean the UK, the USA, the EU, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and quite a few other...
2021-01-13
"No one is above the law"; if only that were true... I quote Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the United States...
2014-11-25
In the UK we have private schools treated as charities for tax purposes for no good reason that most of...
2014-04-28
Following on from Tony Blair's lessons in how to be a successful polishitun, our Dave, the heir to Blair, has...
2022-08-12
Water privatisation? Thatcher's legacy? Gimme strength! All of us should understand why we are in such a mess with our...
2012-09-03
The GCSE exam debacle continues. Many pupils who had been expecting a C grade were given a D as 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 -...
2017-01-24
The Supreme Court is today ruling on something that really does not matter very much to ‘we the people’. Lawyers,...
2013-09-01
Can it really be that politicians are listening to the people? It may just be so here in the UK...
2017-12-30
Brexit hater-in-chief Andrew Adonis has finally left his cushy government job at the National Infrastructure Commission. A government source says:...
2011-10-19
Update January 2025: I originally posted this in 2011 which was about ministerial corruption in government. This 'news' was the...
2012-11-23
The management of the Church of England, (Archie Bishes, Bishes etc.) has clearly revealed its true nature. They are political...
2016-06-26
... for our politicians to accept the reality of what the British people have told them. This result is quite...
2013-02-26
Apart from being good news for the £ (of which more later*), the lack of a majority for any one...
2011-09-14
Even now, when it is obvious to everyone but politicians, journalists and most economists, that "bailouts" don't work - cannot work...
2012-08-20
Sorry - no jokes in this article - just had to write it because I cannot believe the shallow incompetence...
2015-09-23
I summarise some recent news and offer a long term solution as human misery is being played out at Europe's...
2014-04-10
MPs expenses scandal - Maria Miller Once again, we have been handled by the polishituns, and, to a lesser extent,...
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...
2014-09-12
Or, if you do then you are wilfully misleading the people you lead and represent. Obama has just said in...
