After a stressful week, I came home last night wanting some light comedic relief. So I decided to watch one of my favourite episodes of the classic ‘Fawlty Towers’ series entitled ‘The Builders’. The plot revolves around Basil employing the services of a cowboy Irish builder called O’Reilly, whose men proceed to make a number…
In some ways it’s hard to believe we’re now almost a decade on from one of the most politically fraught periods of my life. On Thursday, 18th September, 2014 this United Kingdom came close to losing one-third of its entire territory in a government sop to an Anglophobic separatist party that had cruised to regional…
My career, over the last 27 or so years, has been in the field of disability healthcare and leisure provision. This sometimes involves taking people with severe physical difficulties out on activities and visits for the day. On Tuesday (w/c 19/08/2024), I booked a slot for a wheelchair user at the National Railway Museum in…
One of the many depressing things about living in this age is that what you see with your own eyes is lied about and propagandised out of mind by lying governments and a lying media. The more you see it, the more they try to convince you that what you’re seeing is a mirage. When…
My, my, it’s certainly been an eventful summer so far for those who like to wade in up to their ear lobes in multiculturalism and diversity. First off, we had a Colombian national leaving dismembered body parts in two suitcases on Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol. It turns out he’d travelled from London with remains…
‘Who are you going to believe? Me or your own eyes?’ This quote is wrongly attributed to Groucho Marx in the 1933 classic ‘Duck Soup’. Actually, it was Chico disguised as Groucho responding to a statement from Margaret Dumont’s character, Gloria Teasdale. It was earlier today when I woke up to the devastation that had…
With both the General Election and the European Football Championships taking place earlier this week, I thought it would be a good opportunity to point out the similarities between the England football squad and our newly-elected Labour government. Both are symptoms of a country that has forsaken talent and ambition for good old-fashioned mediocrity; both…
They attempted to curtail the rise of the AfD in Germany (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-69003733) and mooted a possible ban. Macron is apparently considering the use of emergency powers in the event Marine Le Pen’s Rassemblement National party wins the forthcoming national plebiscite in France (https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/is-macron-considering-using-frances-emergency-powers/). In the United States, a politicised court has stymied Donald Trump’s desire…
Just as you were beginning to think this General Election campaign had all the excitement and promise of a Sinclair C5, Monday’s bombshell announcement from Nigel Farage that he has assumed the leadership of the Reform party and will stand for Parliament in the Essex seat of Clacton has livened things up in a way…
I am proudly Right-wing. Unashamedly so. Whereas most young people start off in life with Left-leaning proclivities, I started off my political life as a teenager somewhere between Norman Tebbit and Margaret Thatcher on the ideological scale, and gradually moved even further to the Right as I reached middle age. Nobody is born with their…
Back in the 1990s, I recall watching a comedy sketch by the fantastic Jasper Carrott, in which he recalled growing up in Birmingham during the ‘Swinging Sixties’. His opinion was that if you remembered just how ‘great’ and ‘swinging’ the Sixties were, you were never really there. It was probably fantastic if you were growing…
What do sitcoms such as ‘Only Fools and Horses’, ‘Porridge’, ‘Fawlty Towers’, ‘Open All Hours’, ‘The Inbetweeners’ and ‘Last of the Summer Wine’ all have in common? Apart from being uproariously brilliant, each and every one of those gems ended well over a decade ago. Even the last two are now almost 15 years old!…
When I was growing up in the 1980s in London’s largest geographical borough, the opulence and general orderliness of life there was so pervasive, the question of feeling unsafe on the streets of Bromley rarely encroached into one’s consciousness. Bromley, at the beginning of the 1990s, was listed as the eighth richest local authority in…
It is a long time since I mentioned my profession in one of my articles. I’ve always thought it prudent to keep one’s working life and personal opinions far apart. Not least because we live in a world where those who have a grudge to bear (and they can be many) will ensure your personal…