Politics: accountability evaded
October 31, 2024 2:53 am Post a CommentWell, the budget has come and gone, and there’s not a lot I can add to the torrent of comment... View Article
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Politics: prejudicial comment
October 30, 2024 2:19 am Post a CommentLast week, there was the hint of something amiss when it was noted that the scheduled hearing in Liverpool Crown... View Article
Politics: battle for the Right
October 29, 2024 2:22 am Post a CommentAnother of those issues being poorly covered by the legacy media is the broader battle for the Right in English... View Article
Media: citizen journalists
October 28, 2024 2:19 am Post a CommentWithout really setting out to make it so, coverage of the Ukraine conflict – in particular the fighting in the... View Article
Politics: lacking direction
October 27, 2024 2:06 am Post a CommentBlogging was much easier in the days before the EU Referendum and during the subsequent Brexit negotiation period. At least... View Article
Immigration: dem dinghies
October 26, 2024 3:30 am Post a CommentA crucial milestone was passed yesterday, not one about which we can be proud. That was the headcount of the... View Article
Defence: the least of our problems
October 25, 2024 3:11 am Post a CommentI get the feeling it’s about time I wrote some more on Ukraine, although looking at the Donbass and Kursk... View Article
Law and order: ramifications
October 24, 2024 2:45 am Post a CommentI thought I might be able to leave the Kaba affair with this post, and move on to pastures new,... View Article
Law and order: justice undone
October 23, 2024 3:45 am Post a CommentIf the BBC had a human face, it would at the moment be covered in egg, having failed to sustain... View Article
Media: a new low for the BBC
October 22, 2024 2:52 am Post a CommentAfter yesterday’s ruminations about media trivia, no-one can justifiably argue that today’s focus on the acquittal of Sgt Blake for... View Article
Media: planet trivia
October 21, 2024 3:32 am Post a CommentIn a somewhat trivial article in the Sunday Times, one of the original Blairite spin doctors, Peter Mandelson, is interviewed... View Article
Politics: Irish ayes on the ECHR
October 20, 2024 4:04 am Post a CommentFor a halfway decent, to say nothing of competent, government, the accumulation of adverse events relating to the Irish Republic... View Article
Politics: the end of consensus
October 19, 2024 3:38 am Post a CommentNothing looks likely to cause more controversy – and grief – within the Conservative Party than the vexed question of... View Article
Politics: charisma trumps policy
October 18, 2024 2:37 am Post a CommentI suppose I should have watched the Jenrick-Badenough debate on GB News last night although, since I no longer have... View Article
Ukraine: a contradictory plan
October 17, 2024 2:45 am Post a CommentAlthough some details have been leaked, particularly around the time of his recent visit to the United States, Zelensky’s much-touted... View Article
Energy: villain of the piece
October 16, 2024 4:02 am Post a CommentIt may be only a impression, but I sense that the likes of the Telegraph are more favourably disposed to... View Article
