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:...
2013-08-20
Supreme Court of Wisconsin (1890) “There is no such source and cause of strife, quarrel, fights, malignant opposition, persecution, and...
2019-08-09
Here is Pat Condell, a man even grumpier than me - eight minutes of well argued grumpiness explaining why he,...
2015-03-29
From Irish RTE TV channel program called The Meaning of Life. Q "What would you say to god if he...
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 -...
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...
2021-03-27
Words and their changed meaning The process of that change fascinates me. First we need a definition from the Oxford...
2019-04-29
There are a few simple truths at the heart of our disillusion with politics & politicians No political party has...
2013-09-01
Can it really be that politicians are listening to the people? It may just be so here in the UK...
2012-03-17
Margaret Thatcher had a secret meeting with Rupert Murdoch at Chequers weeks before his 1981 purchase of the Times newspapers,...
2021-03-09
The media & our dear Aunty BBC explored Recently, the many difficult issues that the world continues to face have...
2019-09-04
Politics used to mean "Of the people for the people". Politics now means "Of the MPs and for the MPs"....
2012-03-03
Here we go again, what is it with our politicians How can they be so consistently stupid? Privatisation may be...
2021-08-17
At last! Some objective truth emerges from a USA president's lips. Biden just said that American troops would no longer...
2015-07-08
At London Conference of 1953, the Greek Minister of Finance signed a treaty agreeing to cancel 50% of Germany’s debt!...
2013-11-11
This was part of an Oxford Union debate 24th October 2013, where he discusses, among many other issues, the Common...
2021-02-13
Time to act on China, I link to a Sunday Times article written in July 2020 A page or so...
2017-12-01
Your challenge, dear reader, is to guess which of these are fake news ;-) There will be prizes (but, see...
2011-05-01
BBC Sunday Program glossing over Popes as protectors of paedophile priests I listened with sad incredulity this morning to the...
2012-08-20
Sorry - no jokes in this article - just had to write it because I cannot believe the shallow incompetence...
2014-03-13
Ed Miliband as leader of the Labour Party? Ed Miliband has never found his way into our hearts since becoming...
2023-06-23
A few facts about bank interest rates 'Like most people of my generation who have lived through the period 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...
2015-12-01
... party politics! Party politics has stifled any adult discussion of the threat we face from IS (Islamic State). No,...
2014-06-06
There is currently a daft & pointless row between Michael Gove (Education Secretary) and Theresa May (Home Secretary). [caption id="attachment_3466"...
2024-06-23
Humanists UK teamed up with their Vice President Professor Alice Roberts to explore the humanist approach to life in their...
2011-12-05
Name that gnome -> I am so very fed up with the utter nonsense that our political leaders are spouting...
2015-05-10
... so says the disgraced Jeremy Clarkson in yesterday's Sun newspaper (or so I am reliably informed by the Today...
2016-06-26
... for our politicians to accept the reality of what the British people have told them. This result is quite...
2011-10-19
Update January 2025: I originally posted this in 2011 which was about ministerial corruption in government. This 'news' was the...
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...
2022-02-10
Today John Major slated the current Conservative government, for the second time, for its lies and hypocrisy. He is probably...
2024-12-10
Available in paperback, hardback, Audible and Kindle versions on Amazon. This is for those of you who have not bought...
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...
2017-09-23
"We are so sorry to have upset you Mr & Mrs EU, but now we see that your requests for...
2012-05-15
Seneca (4 - 65 BCE) "Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and...
2018-07-07
So now we know why she said and did nothing for the last two years. Saying nothing meant she avoided...
2013-08-28
It must be true - I read it in the Daily Mail ... ;-) This week Tony Blair has been...
2024-07-26
The creation of GB Energy sounds like a very positive move from by new Labour government, and indeed it should...
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...
2020-12-29
.. and what we should do about it in 2021. My sources are all blue, bold, italics and underlined. Clicking...
2022-08-12
Water privatisation? Thatcher's legacy? Gimme strength! All of us should understand why we are in such a mess with our...
2025-01-22
I am saddened that we have to discuss Elon Musk who has rapidly become a severe danger to us all,...
2012-11-23
The management of the Church of England, (Archie Bishes, Bishes etc.) has clearly revealed its true nature. They are political...
2012-08-08
"The Lords Reform Bill is dead." says Cameraman Senior. "Oh no it isn't!" says Cleggy Minor ... The rowdy delinquents...
2025-03-01
Apologies if you have seen this but I hope you all watch their YouTube Fact Check where they expose thousands...
2012-10-14
EU now says it wants a federal Europe, controlled by the EU Last December I said there was no more...
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...
2013-07-19
... Congregation of the Sisters of Mercy, the Religious Sisters of Charity and the Sisters of the Good Shepherd say...
2018-12-11
Andy Serkis' video shows Theresa Gollum May debating with her dark side. Her Brexit deal was her 'precious'. So good -...
2011-11-18
I have no money but take my body if you must says David Cameraman ... In Berlin today Merkel will...
2014-08-25
Charles, when prince of Wales said "Look chaps, when I ascend, the throne that is, I will sort this all...
2016-09-09
Oh I know the title of this piece is a bit Daily Mail! But, while the press & TV concentrate on...
2024-10-03
The world news is reporting on little more than madness and tragedy. But the the way the news on the...
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...
2018-11-06
I am quoting Daniel Hannan an MEP writing in the Telegraph (on-line) a few days ago. Daniel is a Conservative...
2017-01-24
The Supreme Court is today ruling on something that really does not matter very much to ‘we the people’. Lawyers,...
2013-10-01
I was going to pontificate on each conference but slowly lost the will to live as the weeks went on...
2012-10-06
May I present the latest example of the blitheringly obvious being missed by politicians and their slimy attempts to blame...
2019-09-15
Having just read the front page of today's Sunday Times, I just had to make this short comment on David...
2015-01-20
As the old joke goes "Is the Pope a Catholic?" in other words, the answer to the question just asked...
2012-03-25
'Marriage' is culturally defined as being between a man a woman This is prompted by Arch Bishop Sentamu's statement (27th...
2019-07-14
My letter sent to our local MP sent today Dear Nigel Huddleston MP I have written to you before about...
2018-11-13
Whilst walking my dog this morning I had a chat with a fellow philosopher He is a bit younger than...
2011-08-18
I find David Starkey an interesting man in many ways and admire his perspective on today's events. I love hearing...
2011-06-06
Remember this from our mate Dave? (Tory Conference - October 2009 - full text here) "It means showing that we're all...
2020-03-10
For the last 40 years or so, China's financial, business, political and cultural effect on our world has been a...
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...
2017-10-11
Perhaps you may be wondering why the TV, radio and papers are so full of endless discussions about the need...
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...
2024-05-09
There is no simple solution because we have no charismatic, statesman-like politicians speaking common sense to the people; and we...
2012-03-11
Osborne's gone NATS, selling our air to Germany Thatcher sold our water supply in 1989 which means that there can...
2011-07-17
This is the first of a new series of posts pointing out the obvious hypocrisy of politicians that most people don't have time...
2011-11-13
Yes, I agree with you dear reader, the title of this piece is as unattractive and offensive as is this disgraceful...
2023-10-09
The US and UK support for Israel is way past its sell by date. Biden's response of "unwavering support for...
2017-10-31
Such an important issue this, as is evidenced on front pages everywhere and QuestionTime on BBC 1 last Thursday. Opinions...
2012-12-10
I speak as a Parish Councillor, the lowest cog in the administrative wheel that is local government in England. We...
2024-05-23
One of my dear readers once called me prescient when I was writing years ago about the rise of Isis...
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...
2016-06-15
Ever since I started this blog, some 8 years ago, I have written many posts urging us to leave the...
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...
2020-01-26
Reading the news, since the 12th December2019 election, has been quite illuminating but equally depressing. I'm not talking about global...
2016-02-19
Everyone I meet who is even minimally interested in the EU, knows that Cameraman's EU negotiations have been pointless from...
2012-09-03
The GCSE exam debacle continues. Many pupils who had been expecting a C grade were given a D as a...
2015-10-20
This article is a timely update to one I wrote about the dangers of China in February 2014 China the...
2013-09-13
Here are two items of ground breaking news that you will not find mentioned at all on the BBC. French...
2024-02-02
Hi All This offer refers to 'British politics is broken, BUT, how we might just fix it'. The Kindle version...
2011-05-16
Daniel Hannan destroys Gordon Brown and he says it beautifully in the EU parliament. Just watch Brown squirm. ...not widely...
2014-04-10
MPs expenses scandal - Maria Miller Once again, we have been handled by the polishituns, and, to a lesser extent,...
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...
2013-02-26
Apart from being good news for the £ (of which more later*), the lack of a majority for any one...
2019-02-25
It is not about you MPs - it is about the 17.4 million of us! The sight of those silly...
2013-09-16
Party conference poppycock 2013 Part 1 - the Lib Dems. Vince Cable Business Minister, remember him? He 's the chap...
2011-10-06
The casual hypocrisy of George Osborne:- 09/01/2009 - "QE is the last resort of desperate governments when all other policies...
2016-08-21
...for someone to bring philosophical and visionary leadership to post Brexit Britain. Don't get me wrong, I am a Britain first,...
2019-08-29
May I try to put the childish, irrelevant "furious backlash", as reported today by the BrBC (British Remoaning Broadcasting Corporation),...
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...
2015-03-13
In February 2015, Home Secretary Theresa May said ' ...authorities need to look at the ideology which drives young people...
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...
