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Merry Christmas

December 25, 2025 1:43 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

Amazingly, this is the sixth year I’ve celebrated Christmas on Turbulent Times – it seems like only yesterday we set... View Article

Politics: back

July 21, 2025 2:04 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

Well, we went to RIAT, the weather held out and we got back safely. Pete has downloaded his pics and... View Article

Happy New Year

January 1, 2025 2:56 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

Well, rather than hanging up my keyboard on completion of my 20th year of blogging, I ended up buying a... View Article

Merry Christmas

December 25, 2024 1:19 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

This time last year, I was writing about sense of unease, quite at odds with the supposed season of peace... View Article

Ruminations

September 16, 2023 1:02 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

On writing a piece overnight about how no-one was interested in Africa, I found it ironic that, by midday the... View Article

Immigration: push factors

September 15, 2023 9:56 am Published by Pete North Post a Comment

As we remarked in the previous post, for all the turmoil, though, the manifest lack of interest in African affairs... View Article

Net Zero: the unwanted revolution

July 31, 2023 12:59 pm Published by Pete North Post a Comment

Britain is a world leader in net zero fantasies and delusions says Tim Stanley in The Telegraph. There’s nothing here... View Article

Healthcare: asleep at the wheel

July 29, 2023 12:45 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

A medically illiterate piece, written for The Times by Eleanor Hayward, the paper’s supposed health correspondent, heralds what is described... View Article

The biggest betrayal of Ukraine is yet to come

July 28, 2023 6:15 pm Published by Pete North Post a Comment

There are days when I wonder why either of us bother with blogging. It’s a big financial and personal sacrifice... View Article

Net Zero: turning tides

July 27, 2023 12:49 pm Published by Pete North Post a Comment

Twitter is a very different animal under its new management. The usual censorship is creeping back in and my restored... View Article

Politics: even more analysis

July 25, 2023 12:25 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

So, yesterday, I started the laborious process of analysing the results of last week’s by-elections, starting with Selby and Ainsty.... View Article

The end of Net Zero?

July 24, 2023 1:18 pm Published by Pete North Post a Comment

Rishi Sunak has said today that the government’s net zero targets were important to him, but he did not want... View Article

Politics: delayed analysis

July 24, 2023 12:55 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

Possibly, the most accurate prediction I have ever made was on the Open Thread piece for Tuesday. Then, I wrote... View Article

Europe in crisis

July 20, 2023 3:49 pm Published by Pete North Post a Comment

There are articles aplenty on the rise of the populist right in Europe. It’s been brewing for a long time.... View Article

Open Thread

July 18, 2023 3:41 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

The good news is that the system works. Not every bit of the NHS is broken. The bad news is... View Article

The slow death of Brexit

June 12, 2023 11:20 am Published by Pete North Post a Comment

The exit of Boris Johnson brings wails and recriminations over Brexit. We are told of an “establishment plot” to reverse... View Article