Would you trust a Tory?
By Frederick Dixon: Remember those dim and distant days of yore (well, last May actually, following UKIP’s victory in the Euro elections) when we were told that the Westminster elite “got it”, that they had seen the “elephant in the room”? The elephant that they now said that they had got was, of course, the public concern about immigration which had so greatly contributed to UKIP’s victory. Doubts about the sincerity of our rulers’ conversion to immigration realism soon…
A Cloud For Every Silver Lining
By Frederick Dixon: We heard last week of the ever greater numbers of youngsters going up to university this year. It looks as if very soon the target of 50% of the age group will be exceeded – what a contrast to the days of my youth when only about one in twenty of my contemporaries were “revolting students”! And a good thing too. Well it is, isn’t it? Of course it is, for the future graduates themselves whose…
Corruption In High Places
By Max Musson: I am reminded of a fictional character, US Senator Pat Geary, who is portrayed by G. D. Spradlin in the film ‘The Godfather Part II’. In this film Senator Geary is initially seen attending the communion celebration for Anthony Corleone, the son of Michael Corleone the head of the Corleone crime family around whom the film is centred. Geary publicly accepts a substantial contribution in Anthony’s name as a donation for a local university, but while speaking before the…