No Laughing Matter
I never was a great fan of John Cleese, his style of humour being a bit too manic for my liking, but I have to hand it to the old boy for stirring up a hornets nest a few days ago. You’ll remember the enormous stink that ensued when he said that London was “no longer an English city.” He has inevitably been accused of racism by the usual suspects including Piers Morgan and someone…
Windrush at 70 – The Traitor State
Seventy years ago today, on the 22nd of June 1948, the Empire Windrush docked at Tilbury with several hundred Jamaicans on board. Thus began something quite unprecedented in all of our history – the displacement of the native population of these islands, hitherto entirely representative of the human stocks of north western Europe, by peoples of quite alien origin. What was then “a cloud no larger than a man’s hand” now overshadows the whole sky…