2012-03-25
'Marriage' is culturally defined as being between a man a woman This is prompted by Arch Bishop Sentamu's statement (27th...
2011-11-13
Yes, I agree with you dear reader, the title of this piece is as unattractive and offensive as is this disgraceful...
2012-08-20
Sorry - no jokes in this article - just had to write it because I cannot believe the shallow incompetence...
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:...
2014-04-28
Following on from Tony Blair's lessons in how to be a successful polishitun, our Dave, the heir to Blair, has...
2012-05-26
Baldrick: "What I want to know Sir, is, before there was a Euro there were lots of different types of...
2012-03-11
Osborne's gone NATS, selling our air to Germany Thatcher sold our water supply in 1989 which means that there can...
2022-02-10
Today John Major slated the current Conservative government, for the second time, for its lies and hypocrisy. He is probably...
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...
2019-07-29
Nigel's response to my letter is just underneath my response to his response. Dear Mr Huddleston Thank you for responding....
2014-04-02
Nobody has 'agreed with Nick' for three years. Now, even Vince 'the' Cable has joined that club of pollishituns who...
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...
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...
2013-09-13
Here are two items of ground breaking news that you will not find mentioned at all on the BBC. French...
2023-09-12
Those words, from Ian Duncan Smith this morning, echo what I have been saying here on this blog for fourteen...
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...
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...
2012-09-03
The GCSE exam debacle continues. Many pupils who had been expecting a C grade were given a D as a...
2022-08-12
Water privatisation? Thatcher's legacy? Gimme strength! All of us should understand why we are in such a mess with our...
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...
2013-09-16
Party conference poppycock 2013 Part 1 - the Lib Dems. Vince Cable Business Minister, remember him? He 's the chap...
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...
2011-05-25
The media is all excited and discussing endlessly how Twitter is 'challenging the supremacy of conventional law'; so, once again...
2016-06-15
Ever since I started this blog, some 8 years ago, I have written many posts urging us to leave the...
2024-06-23
Humanists UK teamed up with their Vice President Professor Alice Roberts to explore the humanist approach to life in their...
2012-12-10
I speak as a Parish Councillor, the lowest cog in the administrative wheel that is local government in England. We...
2019-09-15
Having just read the front page of today's Sunday Times, I just had to make this short comment on David...
2015-08-01
Our dumbed down BBC news A BBC reporter was interviewing one persistent, but unsuccessful, immigrant on the recent death of...
2024-05-23
One of my dear readers once called me prescient when I was writing years ago about the rise of Isis...
2024-07-26
The creation of GB Energy sounds like a very positive move from by new Labour government, and indeed it should...
2017-12-01
Your challenge, dear reader, is to guess which of these are fake news ;-) There will be prizes (but, see...
2016-02-19
Everyone I meet who is even minimally interested in the EU, knows that Cameraman's EU negotiations have been pointless from...
2012-05-15
Seneca (4 - 65 BCE) "Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and...
2013-11-11
This was part of an Oxford Union debate 24th October 2013, where he discusses, among many other issues, the Common...
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...
2019-08-09
Here is Pat Condell, a man even grumpier than me - eight minutes of well argued grumpiness explaining why he,...
2013-01-11
Special relationship? Pah There is no special relationship In meBook, sadly as yet unpublished, I explain in some detail that...
2024-12-10
Available in paperback, hardback, Audible and Kindle versions on Amazon. This is for those of you who have not bought...
2014-04-10
MPs expenses scandal - Maria Miller Once again, we have been handled by the polishituns, and, to a lesser extent,...
2020-12-29
.. and what we should do about it in 2021. My sources are all blue, bold, italics and underlined. Clicking...
2022-08-09
This post first appeared in 2021 and several more earlier should have alerted western governments to the danger that the...
2012-03-03
Here we go again, what is it with our politicians How can they be so consistently stupid? Privatisation may be...
2013-02-26
Apart from being good news for the £ (of which more later*), the lack of a majority for any one...
2011-05-25
There was a discussion on the BBC Radio 4 'Today' program this morning which is probably the most important issue...
2013-10-01
I was going to pontificate on each conference but slowly lost the will to live as the weeks went on...
2017-10-31
Such an important issue this, as is evidenced on front pages everywhere and QuestionTime on BBC 1 last Thursday. Opinions...
2015-10-20
This article is a timely update to one I wrote about the dangers of China in February 2014 China the...
2024-12-14
Prince Andrew's latest example of corruption has encouraged me to release another Chapter of my book 'British Politics is broken,...
2015-07-08
At London Conference of 1953, the Greek Minister of Finance signed a treaty agreeing to cancel 50% of Germany’s debt!...
2012-03-17
Margaret Thatcher had a secret meeting with Rupert Murdoch at Chequers weeks before his 1981 purchase of the Times newspapers,...
2017-09-23
"We are so sorry to have upset you Mr & Mrs EU, but now we see that your requests for...
2019-07-14
My letter sent to our local MP sent today Dear Nigel Huddleston MP I have written to you before about...
2011-10-06
The casual hypocrisy of George Osborne:- 09/01/2009 - "QE is the last resort of desperate governments when all other policies...
2023-06-23
A few facts about bank interest rates 'Like most people of my generation who have lived through the period of...
2016-01-20
Peter Brookes said it beautifully in his cartoon printed six weeks before Saudi Arabia executed 45 'enemies of state'. I...
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...
2021-02-13
Time to act on China, I link to a Sunday Times article written in July 2020 A page or so...
2018-12-05
A short constitutional overview A referendum is the most powerful democratic tool we have. It is, and was in 2016,...
2013-08-28
It must be true - I read it in the Daily Mail ... ;-) This week Tony Blair has been...
2015-08-14
I am greatly amused by the frantic anti Jeremy Corbyn campaign being waged by the other three Labour party leadership...
2011-11-18
I have no money but take my body if you must says David Cameraman ... In Berlin today Merkel will...
2011-05-13
Supreme Court of Wisconsin “There is no such source and cause of strife, quarrel, fights, malignant opposition, persecution, and war,...
2014-05-27
What we the people have said is what none of those in power want to hear. Our "None of the...
2015-08-19
This piece has been coming for a while now. Recent the new Fox hunting bill, and the Scottish National Party's...
2014-08-25
Charles, when prince of Wales said "Look chaps, when I ascend, the throne that is, I will sort this all...
2023-10-09
The US and UK support for Israel is way past its sell by date. Biden's response of "unwavering support for...
2012-08-08
"The Lords Reform Bill is dead." says Cameraman Senior. "Oh no it isn't!" says Cleggy Minor ... The rowdy delinquents...
2016-06-26
... for our politicians to accept the reality of what the British people have told them. This result is quite...
2014-07-28
Today the government is accepting applications for licenses to explore potential fracking sites. The contracts that will be eventually signed...
2013-09-01
Can it really be that politicians are listening to the people? It may just be so here in the UK...
2017-01-24
The Supreme Court is today ruling on something that really does not matter very much to ‘we the people’. Lawyers,...
2017-10-11
Perhaps you may be wondering why the TV, radio and papers are so full of endless discussions about the need...
2024-02-02
Hi All This offer refers to 'British politics is broken, BUT, how we might just fix it'. The Kindle version...
2012-10-06
May I present the latest example of the blitheringly obvious being missed by politicians and their slimy attempts to blame...
2012-07-03
Bob Diamond resigns as CEO of Barclays Bank which itself has been, so far, fined an estimated £200 million by...
2024-08-14
The words below are all from We Own It, but this first paragraph is from me. I have supported 'We...
2010-02-10
BBC – Have Your Say debate Should there be more religion on tv? Wednesday, 10 February, 2010, 14:38 A question,...
2012-02-02
Here is the latest in the long tradition of cock-ups by those who are paid to know better than 'we...
2018-03-20
As Nigel Farage has said today "We sold out fisheries when we joined the EEC and we’re selling them out...
2018-03-22
There are no funny cartoons in this post, there are no jokes either. Just when I thought it couldn't get...
2011-10-28
Last night's Questiontime on BBC1 gave us that question - I have to say thanks to the gentleman who asked...
2015-03-13
In February 2015, Home Secretary Theresa May said ' ...authorities need to look at the ideology which drives young people...
2023-01-13
My second book is the first to be published and is all about the danger that faith creates for society....
2015-03-29
From Irish RTE TV channel program called The Meaning of Life. Q "What would you say to god if he...
2011-08-18
I find David Starkey an interesting man in many ways and admire his perspective on today's events. I love hearing...
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...
2013-07-19
... Congregation of the Sisters of Mercy, the Religious Sisters of Charity and the Sisters of the Good Shepherd say...
2018-11-13
Whilst walking my dog this morning I had a chat with a fellow philosopher He is a bit younger than...
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...
2016-09-09
Oh I know the title of this piece is a bit Daily Mail! But, while the press & TV concentrate on...
2011-06-06
Remember this from our mate Dave? (Tory Conference - October 2009 - full text here) "It means showing that we're all...
2012-03-19
This is yet more madness delivered by visionless, asset stripping, incompetents (AKA the Tory party) ...first OUR water, then OUR...
2011-09-14
Even now, when it is obvious to everyone but politicians, journalists and most economists, that "bailouts" don't work - cannot work...
2014-11-25
In the UK we have private schools treated as charities for tax purposes for no good reason that most of...
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...
2021-01-13
"No one is above the law"; if only that were true... I quote Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the United States...
2011-05-16
Daniel Hannan destroys Gordon Brown and he says it beautifully in the EU parliament. Just watch Brown squirm. ...not widely...
2012-08-13
"Evil & corruption was everywhere" says the Pope's former butler, Paolo Gabriele This naïve yet probably honest man actually thought...
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...