A strange incident, but not unfamiliar.
A policeman goes past an art gallery in Mayfair on a bus, and sees the artwork
Continue reading →A strange incident, but not unfamiliar.
A policeman goes past an art gallery in Mayfair on a bus, and sees the artwork
Continue reading →Free speech is about the right to make your views known. It is also about the right to offend others so that they may use their free speech to offend you in return.
Now normally when a
Continue reading →The industry I have loathed and loved for more decades than I care to remember is going through the sort of public beasting which was reserved for witches in medieval England. No doubt there
Continue reading →The Lord Chancellor, as he was fondly known and had been for about 1400 years, until Tony Blair sought to distance himself from the wallpapering disaster known as Derry Irvine, devising a system of Kremlin-lite titles until finally
Continue reading →The Right Honourable Nick Clegg MP
c/o The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister
70 Whitehall
SW1A 2AS
28th April 2012 Dear Deputy Prime Minister,
You have never met me, but I am writing
Continue reading →What’s the Walter Duranty Prize you may ask? Have you heard of the Pulitzer prize? You have? Good. Well the Duranty prize is the opposite of the Pulitzer prize.
We have the Oscars for
Continue reading → Ditch Socialism as a political ideology
And Capitalism as a political ideology
If nobody can agree on what these things mean
Then implementing them is no more than a dream
If we
Whatever possessed me to promise to commit myself to writing about Euro MPs in way that was not ‘dry and dusty’. What was I thinking of? Perhaps I have just
Continue reading →I shared Gildas’ rage yesterday; he fared better than I, he was actually able to articulate his rage. PMQs left me quite speechless and I abandoned the effort to write.
PMQs has become
Continue reading →I have been listening to PMQ’s. I am raging. I don’t do good rage normally.
Today I do.
We are told today that in the first quarter of this year
Continue reading →If I wanted Britain to fail …
To follow, not lead; to suffer, not prosper; to despair, not dream.
I would start with energy.
I’d cut off Britain’s supply of cheap, abundant energy.
Continue reading →The Cutty Sark is going to be reopened to the public on Thursady after a £50m refit and restoration project. A fire destroyed nearly all of it
Continue reading →The feministas and their supporters are having a field day today – a football field day. It is not enough for them that they have seen the conviction of a
Continue reading →Ken Livingstone has probably damaged himself irrecoverably with his hysterical and hypocritical talk of tax avoidance and so he very unlikely to win the London Mayoral election. People seem to accept
Continue reading →I bet many of you haven’t realised that it’s St George’s Day today. For some reason there is huge amount of publicity about other countries national days
Continue reading →The Sunday Times today is running one of its periodic ‘investigations’. This is why they are behind a paywall apparently. The subject is the emotive one (to the feministas -some
Continue reading →Long ago, when I was a mere slip of a girl, and RipVanWinkle had only just dozed off, I pitched up at the London Hilton for a job
Continue reading →We, being a noisy, uncontrollable rabble, vote for MPs to be our voice in the House of Commons. Such is the theory anyway.
We, being a
Continue reading → To be a renaissance man
Specifically, this requires you to look at life holistically
A polymath grafts to view no graph in isolation
A zoologist philosopher like Kropotkin in northern Asia
Yearning
Do children read the Daily Mail? Do they listen to the BBC news? Probably some do, but if the NSPCC is really concerned about alerting children to the dangers of
Continue reading →The Electoral Commission has done us a disservice.
Whilst they are quite happy to accept an
Continue reading →The Central Office of Information (COI) has closed it’s doors after 65 years.
Is this because it is no longer necessary to dictate to the public who
Continue reading → Rehabilitation and its discontents
This penal largesse simply makes no sense in any context
A flawless denial of the mainstream consciousness
On top of this, I am unable to resist the chance
Will true Britons ever stand up and fight the authoritarian European Commission? Will they never rise from their Jeremy Kyle induced sofa slumber and cry out ‘Enough! Enough!’ If they don’t hurry up and revolt, they could
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