Author: Andy Mac

Andrew has been involved in blogging and other media commentary for nearly 20 years. His political passions are the Union of the United Kingdom, small-state Conservatism, Brexit and contesting the increasingly cultural Left-wing narratives of our time. Andrew lives in West Yorkshire.

Articles | UK Politics

Argy Bargy
ByAndy Mac 6 August 20236 August 2023

According to the UK media (never paragons of accuracy), Monday will herald the beginning of the most visible manifestation of the government’s unwillingness or incapability (delete as appropriate) to control our borders. Portland Port, near Weymouth, will be blighted by the presence of the giant Bibby Stockholm barge (https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/bibby-stockholm-asylum-seekers-robert-jenrick-dorset-cornwall-fire-brigades-union-b1098924.html) where the government will begin housing…

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Articles | Current Affairs | Politics | UK Politics

‘Same Shit, Different Colour’
ByAndy Mac 24 July 202324 July 2023

It was an exciting atmosphere down in the newsrooms of Sky and the BBC on Thursday evening. The usual commentators were getting ready to give their usual analyses; Jo Coburn’s voice positively quivered with excitement as the counts at the various centres were taking place; John Curtice was wheeled out like a mature bottle of…

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Articles | Technology

What a Load of Old App!
ByAndy Mac 9 July 202310 July 2023

On Saturday, 8th July, my best mate and I were travelling back to Yorkshire from Brighton on the 19:57 Grand Central train service. As the train pulled out of London King’s Cross station, the catering manager announced the buffet car would be opening shortly. After reeling off a quick list of available snacks, she informed…

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Articles | UK Politics | US Politics

Unstoppable Force; Immovable Object
ByAndy Mac 24 June 202324 June 2023

Hamtramck. It’s a place in the United States most on here will not have heard of. In the heyday of car production in Detroit, this small city in the suburbs was notable for its huge Polish-American population who mostly worked in the motor industry. Since the decline and fall of Detroit (with de-population rates unparalleled…

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Articles | UK Politics

Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Court
ByAndy Mac 11 June 202311 June 2023

When I look at the fate that has befallen the former Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, I feel obliged to see it through two separate lenses: firstly my own, and then that of the millions of other voters who elected the Conservatives with an 80-seat majority back in 2019. The reason I wish to make this…

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Articles | Current Affairs | Politics | UK Politics

Surface Dressing
ByAndy Mac 11 May 202311 May 2023

If you’ve driven on the roads in Britain during the summertime, you’ll be familiar with a process road workers call ‘surface dressing’. This involves spraying bitumen binder (a sticky tar-like substance) on a clean, dry road surface, over which stone chippings are spread (small, consistently-sized aggregate). The surface is rolled to embed the stones into…

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Articles | UK Politics

In Which They Serve
ByAndy Mac 1 May 20231 May 2023

When the whole furore surrounding allegations of bullying was first made against Dominic Raab, I was reminded of a scene in the most recent series of ‘Happy Valley’. For those who recall the series aired earlier this year, it was when Catherine Cawood (the local Halifax police sergeant) was called to her grandson’s school when…

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Articles | UK Politics | US Politics

Worthless Is a Thing Called Joe
ByAndy Mac 15 April 202315 April 2023

When the late Ballard Berkeley played Major Gowen in the epic comedy series ‘Fawlty Towers’, we laughed at his bungling attitude, his forgetfulness and his ignorant opinions. You see, back then witless folk were the objects of comedy ridicule and light-hearted banter. Today, they’re elected to the most powerful political position on the planet. How…

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Current Affairs | Economy | Events | Global Politics | UK Politics

Union Pacific
ByAndy Mac 1 April 20231 April 2023

Union Pacific. No, I’m not talking about Cecil B DeMille’s 1939 classic starring Barbara Stanwyck. I’m referring to yesterday’s declaration that Britain had signed its biggest trading agreement since Brexit. It was a glorious moment watching all the usual media and academic celebrities going into Twitter meltdown when the announcement came through that the United…

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Current Affairs | UK Politics

Gary!
ByAndy Mac 18 March 202318 March 2023

‘Strangers on the Shore’ is the penultimate episode of the evergreen classic ‘Only Fools and Horses’. During the course of the storyline Del Boy, Rodney, Trigger and Denzil accidentally sneak what they assume to be an illegal migrant from France to the UK. Unable to speak English, the migrant is called ‘Gary’ by the brothers…

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Articles

ULEZses
ByAndy Mac 6 March 20236 March 2023

When I was a teenager, passing my driving test was my ultimate ambition. When arriving at school, I had to pass the teachers’ car park from the playground to the main school compound and I would look enviously on whilst my tutors arrived in an array of impressive automobiles (my favourite being a black Alfa…

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Articles | European Politics

Bridgehead Revisited
ByAndy Mac 19 February 202319 February 2023

‘Will they or won’t they?’ Those are the questions the media are feverishly asking themselves of Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party as they pore over the latest offer on the Protocol devised by the government in conjunction with the European Union. Their answer should become clear in the next few days. Understandably, they have refused…

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Delilah
ByAndy Mac 5 February 20235 February 2023

It was memorable song when released in the spring of ’68. It’s become a karaoke classic since. In chart trivia terms it was yet another failed attempt by Tom Jones to recapture the success of his first two releases. Alas, unlike ‘It’s Not Unusual’ and ‘The Green Green Grass of Home’, ‘Delilah’ did not make…

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Articles | Current Affairs | UK Politics

Killing Us Softly with Their Throng
ByAndy Mac 21 January 202322 January 2023

Having riled millions of British people with their intense coverage of the ongoing situation regarding the invasion on our southern shore, the mainstream media have now fallen silent on the subject once again. It’s made me wonder whether our news channels (and I include GB News and TalkTV in this) are interested in anything other…

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Articles | Current Affairs

‘I’m Sexy and I Know It’?
ByAndy Mac 5 January 20235 January 2023

Those with considerably more modern tastes in music than I (my interest tended to peter out after ‘Figaro’ by the Brotherhood of Man) will remember a tune from 2011 called ‘I’m Sexy and I know it’ by American duo LMFAO. The chorus of this 3-minute assault on the earholes goes as follows: ‘Ah… Girl look…

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