Choose Your Poison
The recent Queen’s Speech to Parliament contained a good deal of crowd-pleasing ‘populist’ proposals. Tougher penalties for serious criminals and for foreign criminals who sneak back into the country are in the mixture, along with much trailed items such as ‘more bobbies on the beat’, improved transport in the north of England and more besides. How much of this, if any, will ever turn into legislation is anyone’s guess, but it is reasonable to suppose…
Boris’ Biggest Joke
So the inevitable has happened and Boris is Prime Minister. How long he lasts is another matter – it’s probably safe to say that on the 1st November we will either be out of the EU or Boris will be out of office. It’s going to be a fascinating three months; our new PM’s patriotic, Churchillian ebullience is both entertaining and infectious – but there is nothing good in it for our vision of Britain.…
What has become of Dear Old London, and Our People?
Walking through London you almost feel like you’ve entered a strange parallel time-line. Someone standing in London a century ago could never have foreseen what we see before us today, and if they could, they would undoubtedly feel an extreme sense of shock and betrayal at what their descendants have done. In the London of today we see rising decadence and clear evidence of a crumbling civilisation; high crime rates; promiscuity; the decline of the…
Mind the Gap
I was happily enjoying a solitary lunch in an Italian restaurant the other day (a very nice minestrone as it happens), when my solitude was interrupted by the proprietor wanting to chat – it was a quiet day. Well, you have to be polite so I indulged him even though his English is only marginally better than my Italian. He wanted to talk politics, so having stumbled through Brexit (he’s in favour) and Boris (I’m…
Evil Begets Evil
So who is to blame for the dead of Christchurch? The man who pulled the trigger of course. But apart from him? The media know exactly whom to blame – the “extreme Right” of course ; “neo-Nazi thugs” and White Supremacists involved in some world wide conspiracy of “hate”. The conspiracy of white supremacist hate extends a surprisingly long way – Sky News reports managed to drag in mentions of Tommy Robinson and even Nigel…
Blue Planet Greens
It was early in the millennium that Sir David Attenborough conducted us through the “Blue Planet”, the BBC’s astonishing exploration of the world’s oceans and the life which they sustain. So enthralling did I find it that somehow I haven’t had the heart to watch its replacement, Blue Planet 2, although I’m told that it was just as good. Justification, you might think, for a State broadcaster lavishly funded by a special tax? Or perhaps…
Tories Fall in Love – With Immigration!
I doubt if many visitors to this site believe that the purpose of the Conservative party is actually to conserve anything other than the wealth of those who already have it. But if there are any such, they should be disabused by the reaction of Migrationwatch UK to our Pakistani Home Secretary’s new post-Brexit immigration policy: “The proposal to admit an unlimited number of low skilled workers from a range of countries is astonishing. A…
When Politics Invades the Playground
This week a story has obsessed the media almost as much as the continuing Brexit saga, it is the story of a Syrian school boy named as Jamal, a refugee whose family have been relocated to Huddersfield and who now attends Almondbury Community School in that town. A video has been posted on the internet showing an English boy wrestling an Asian boy, allegedly Jamal, to the ground, whereupon the English boy proceeds to pour…
Trump, Brexit, Immigration & Genuine, 100%, Copper-bottomed, ‘Fake News’!
In the manner of all good farces and melodramas, these passed ten days have seen Prime Minister Theresa May ambush her cabinet at Chequers in the most Machiavellian fashion, cowing them momentarily with threats of short shrift, sackings and mini-cab rides home if they didn’t submit to coercion over the Brexit deal she has planned, only for a series of high drama resignations to follow, and for her to be wrong-footed by an all guns…
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…