The Pandemic and its Political Implications
It is just eleven months since the very first COVID-19 cases were confirmed here in the UK; just ten months since the first COVID-19 death; and just under nine months since Boris Johnson announced the first lock-down designed to contain the spread of the Corona virus and protect the NHS from being overwhelmed. It is also just a month since the Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory Agency here in the UK approved the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for…
It’s a Fishy Story, Gary, a Fishy Story!
Recently the humanitarian aid group, International Rescue Committee, released a promotional video promoting the cause of migration into Britain with the bold claim that we’ve “got refugees to thank for” our nations favourite take-away dish of fish and chips, and with the spurious punch line, “Britain wouldn’t be Britain without refugees”. The video, starring BBC Match of the Day presenter Gary Lineker appears to ‘drive a coach and horses’ through the public relations initiative recently…
Black Ops Matter
For several days following Saturday, June 13th, the mass media was full of stories about the two rival demonstrations that took place in London that day and the media coverage was intense and as we have come to expect, massively biased in favour of one side. The mass media were determined from the outset to report that Black Lives Matter demonstrators were of noble cause and of peaceful intent, and the media deliberately ignored any…
‘Black Lives Matter’ Demo and the Grand Old Duke of York
The Grand Old Duke of York was famous for having 10,000 men, and according to nursery rhyme, for marching them up to the top of the hill and marching them down again! Sadly, the moral of this ancient ditty is rather lost on many people nowadays, so let me explain: In just over two weeks’ time we will commemorate the 104th Anniversary of the Battle of the Somme, a bloody affair in which 3 million…
COVID-19 – From a Drama into a Crisis!
We have as a nation endured for nine weeks now, an unprecedented period of social and political disruption which has had and still threatens, the most far reaching and serious consequences for the future well-being of our people. As we all know a viral pandemic has swept the world in the way that viral pandemics have since humans and our pre-human ancestors first walked this earth. Unlike most previous pandemics however, this pandemic — the…
Of Coronavirus, Lions & Sheep!
It is now roughly three weeks since my first article on this subject the whole world it seems is still in the grip of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. In the first countries to be infected, China and Italy there now appears to be some reduction in the rates of infection and in the numbers of deaths, but for the rest of the world the numbers are still rising steeply. Here in the UK the Prime…
Corona – goes viral!
The world is in the grip of a viral pandemic of the proportions normally only seen in horror movies, and we all begin to realise that in a ‘global village’; in which intercontinental travel has been promoted as the height of sophistication; and in which multiculturalism and multiracialism is regarded as de rigour, ‘conventional wisdom’ has been turned on its head.
Unionism Thrown Under the Bus
Following his resignation as Theresa May’s Brexit Secretary in November 2018, current Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab defended his actions citing May’s intention to accept a ‘backstop’ arrangement, which would see the UK stay in a customs union with the EU, and would form the basis of our future trading relationship with the EU, rather than the free trade deal that he had been arguing for. What Raab also revealed at that time was that EU…
“Do or die, come what may!”
When Boris Johnson assumed the office of Prime Minister on 24th July this year, he appeared full of gusto, full of determination and full of vim and vigour. Standing in Downing Street, outside number 10, he promised in his first speech as Prime Minister, to “restore trust in democracy”. He said: ‘We will come out [of the EU] on 31 October, no ifs and no buts. We will do a new deal and a better…
The Proroguing of Parliament and the Abuse of Democracy
Following Boris Johnson’s recent announcement of the temporary suspension of Parliament in the run up to a new Queen’s speech, and as the deadline for our exit from the European Union (EU) looms closer, there is much spoken about “the abuse of democracy” or “the death of democracy” by spokespeople for the liberal-left. Their calls for people to “take to the streets” have largely gone unheeded however, despite the best efforts of our mass media…