Commonwealth or Common Woe?
I’m not sure whether or not the Commonwealth conference has quite finished yet. I thought it had, but then caught something on the radio the other day about a related function or reception, but as my interest in the institution is limited I didn’t really pay attention. Perhaps I should have, because this seemingly moribund organisation is coming back to bite us. It is not by coincidence that the conference was overshadowed by the Windrush…
As Remembrance Day & the Centenary of WWI Approaches …
By Max Musson: From time to time, the advocates of multiculturalism and multiracialism trot out the hackneyed assertion and untruth that one or more of the various immigrant groups in this country are perfectly entitled to colonise Britain because their forebears fought for this country during the two World Wars, and in this centenary year in which we are as a nation commemorating the sacrifices of our grandfathers’ and great-grandfathers’ generation during World War One,…
Hooray…I Think: UK to End Foreign Aid to India by 2015
Hard-pressed British taxpayers will be ecstatic to learn that they will stop handing over billions in cash to nuclear-power, navy-larger-than-ours, more-millionaires-than Britain, India — but only by 2015. Image: The Chandrayaan-1, India’s maiden lunar mission, before launch at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre near Chennai. The Tory-labour-Libdem party has announced that support will “be cut” by about £200m between 2013 and 2015 before being stopped completely. The announced by “International Development” secretary Justine Greening that…