Politics: battles still to fight
April 17, 2025 2:39 am Post a CommentIt should never, ever have been the case that the definition of a woman was a political hot-potato, and that... View Article
Woke
Politics: the distraction continues
April 2, 2024 2:45 am Post a CommentPart of me intensely resents having to spend time and effort covering the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act... View Article
Woke: the enemy within
December 28, 2023 3:42 am Post a CommentThere are far important things happening in the world today than the behaviour of the BBC, and one should not... View Article
Net-zero: manifest hypocrisy
May 4, 2023 2:49 am Post a CommentIt is a sign of the times, perhaps – or an indication of the profound hypocrisy that surrounds the issue... View Article
Leadership contest: alien invasion
July 16, 2022 2:35 pm Post a CommentPolitical animals just love a Tory leadership contest. I don’t. Especially this one. I wasn’t salivating to get rid of... View Article
More Facebook censorship
June 27, 2022 1:40 am Post a CommentIt’s usually Twitter censoring me but this week it’s Facebook and I’m now suspended for seven days for a post... View Article
Politics: knowing your enemy
March 24, 2022 2:27 pm Post a CommentI’ve been quite surprised by my own emerging views on Ukraine. I’m closer to Jeremy Corbyn, George Galloway and Spiked... View Article
Colston: airbrushing history
January 9, 2022 2:11 am Post a CommentTo say that statues should be put in museums overlooks the fact that our cities are living museums to who... View Article
Losing the war for democracy
December 15, 2021 2:08 pm Post a CommentA campaigner has lost a Supreme Court case challenging the government’s refusal to issue gender neutral passports. Christie Elan-Cane said... View Article
It’s time to take on the human rights blob
December 14, 2021 7:45 pm Post a CommentBelieve it or not, I’m actually on the fence when it comes to the current proposals for reform of human... View Article
Raab: taking us for mugs
December 14, 2021 12:56 am Post a CommentThe Guardian reports: Dominic Raab is to outline a sweeping overhaul of human rights law that he claims will counter... View Article
Something rotten at the Imperial War Museum
December 13, 2021 8:07 am Post a CommentOne of the essential follows on Twitter for anyone interested in the history of World Ward Two is RG Poulussen... View Article
Man down. Again.
December 4, 2021 11:46 am Post a CommentLooks like I’m suspended from Twitter again. They’ve been purging accounts for a couple of days. Twitter is determined to... View Article
Politics: selective offence
July 15, 2021 2:09 am Post a CommentA playground ditty familiar to all of my generation was: “sticks and stones may break my bones, but names and... View Article
Foreign aid: a noble but corrupted ideal
July 15, 2021 1:10 am Post a CommentForeign aid has a tarnished reputation among the British public who fail to see what it’s for and how it... View Article
A conspiracy theory…
June 30, 2021 4:21 am Post a CommentA lot has been said of the Labour party sucking up to racist, sexist, homophobic Pakistanis. Labour has got away... View Article
