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…
‘The Bridge on the River Kwai’ is one of my favourite wartime movies. This 1957 classic, with an ensemble cast including Sir Alec Guinness, is far more fiction than reality in terms of its depiction of the construction of the Siam–Burma Railway. Nevertheless, it is a tour de force of cinema, winning 7 Oscars including…
Did you know the United Kingdom now leads the world in the number of acid attacks on people? Whereas we once gave humanity things like pop icons and penicillin, we now give them revolting and scary statistical facts like this! In 2017, the number peaked at 941 attacks before dropping steadily until 2022. However, last…
Yesterday afternoon, the sickly whiff of clichéd promises emanating from the chamber of Stormont like the gravy trail we used to see on the old Bisto adverts meant one thing: The Northern Ireland Assembly was back in business. Yes, Europe’s most pointless and dysfunctional seat of government had reconvened, and with a party dedicated to…
If there are any followers out there who’ve read about my scholastic childhood before, I’ll first offer my sincere apologies as I’m going to recite the story once again for the purpose of this article. I was baptised into the Church of England. My father, an Anglican, made an informal prenuptial agreement with my Mum,…