Ruminations
September 16, 2023 1:02 am Post a CommentOn writing a piece overnight about how no-one was interested in Africa, I found it ironic that, by midday the... View Article
On writing a piece overnight about how no-one was interested in Africa, I found it ironic that, by midday the... View Article
As we remarked in the previous post, for all the turmoil, though, the manifest lack of interest in African affairs... View Article
Britain is a world leader in net zero fantasies and delusions says Tim Stanley in The Telegraph. There’s nothing here... View Article
A medically illiterate piece, written for The Times by Eleanor Hayward, the paper’s supposed health correspondent, heralds what is described... View Article
There are days when I wonder why either of us bother with blogging. It’s a big financial and personal sacrifice... View Article
Twitter is a very different animal under its new management. The usual censorship is creeping back in and my restored... View Article
So, yesterday, I started the laborious process of analysing the results of last week’s by-elections, starting with Selby and Ainsty.... View Article
Rishi Sunak has said today that the government’s net zero targets were important to him, but he did not want... View Article
Possibly, the most accurate prediction I have ever made was on the Open Thread piece for Tuesday. Then, I wrote... View Article
There are articles aplenty on the rise of the populist right in Europe. It’s been brewing for a long time.... View Article
The good news is that the system works. Not every bit of the NHS is broken. The bad news is... View Article
The exit of Boris Johnson brings wails and recriminations over Brexit. We are told of an “establishment plot” to reverse... View Article
It’s just as well that the Ukraine war is fairly quiet at the moment, otherwise the media might have difficulty... View Article
After some months of being permanently suspended from Twitter, Mr Musk finally restored one of my lesser followed accounts. In... View Article
There’s an argument about that were it not for Brexit, there wouldn’t be a £60bn hole in public finances. The... View Article