System Restore – Maggie Thatcher and Michael Foot Return to the Stage!
They say that fashions change in cycles and that if we wait long enough, those bell-bottomed jeans we loved in the 1970s will come back into fashion again, and it seems this is just as true in the ‘bread and circuses’ world of electoral politics as anywhere else. For some years now the public have become progressively less and less interested in politics, finding the three main establishment parties virtually indistinguishable in terms of the…
As the Dust Settles … Europe on the Brink
Three weeks on from the fateful day when the British people finally managed to throw off the death grip that the EU held us in, we can look back on a turbulent period during which money markets and stock markets have see-sawed violently and during which several major politicians, and some minor, have seen their career prospects first raised up, and then dashed upon the rocks. Now however, as the dust settles, we find Boris…
Gagging – Cameron’s Counter Extremism Measures
“Over generations, we in Britain have built something extraordinary: a successful multi-racial, multi-faith democracy. Our country today is more vibrant, buoyant and diverse than ever before in our history.” These are the opening words of our Prime Minister David Cameron’s forward to the document presenting his government’s ‘Counter Extremism Strategy’, and all people grounded in reality will recognise at once how delusional they are. While the population of Britain are indeed more ‘diverse’ than ever…
No Nation Tories!
By Max Musson: Since before the general election there has been much talk in Conservative, government and establishment circles and within the mass media generally about terrorism, and the need to counter terrorist activity and extremism in our society. Recently on Independent Television (ITV) the Home Secretary Theresa May spoke to Susanna Reid about the need to counter extremism and those who seek to ‘divide’ our nation, stating, “we are one nation, we will be…
Encountering Antisemitism
By Max Musson: Since the Charlie Hebdo shootings and the siege of the kosher supermarket in Paris, the authorities on both side of the Channel have gone into overdrive in pandering to Jewish sensibilities, as if the issue of security in the face of Islamic terrorism revolves solely around the security needs of Jews and so much so, that the needs of the rest of us don’t really warrant attention. We have seen the Prime Minister, David…
Stephen Lawrence, Edward Snowden and the Surveillance State
By Max Musson: In the wake of admissions by former undercover police officer Peter Francis, that he was at one time asked to search for evidence that might be useful in discrediting the family and friends of Stephen Lawrence, we have the media and the liberal elite calling for a public enquiry and Doreen Lawrence meeting with Theresa May the Home Secretary, as lawyers presumably, are busy exploring the possibility of the family receiving yet…