When Tony Blair’s government launched their crusade to bring devolution to the United Kingdom after their landslide election in 1997, there was not shortage of voices urging caution. One of the most notable of these was the late Labour MP Tam Dalyell, most famous for coining the ‘West Lothian’ conundrum on the democratic deficit faced…
Hungary shares a border with Ukraine. We traveled to Budapest to speak with the country’s prime minister, Viktor Orbán. Bonus Track….
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…
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…
Three years on from the launch of the Covid Plandemic, a lot of us still wonder HOW it can be that so many of our friends, family and associates complied with that which the Authorities requested of them. These were the people who stayed at home, who wore the masks, who took the jabs. These…
Roars of Indian media hardly go along with the democratic principles of the country. Though Rahul Gandhi of the Congress party completely lacks leadership qualities and intellectual bandwidth, a brigand of media columnists always tries hard to project him as the future Prime Minister of the country. This is totally absurd. Are Sachin Pilot and…
In the USA, there is no guarantee that the person who left home will return safely in the evening. Thanks to the easy accessibility of guns. Any adult citizen above the age of 21 can purchase firearms. Therefore, a sense of doom always hangs in this advanced country. It is the country with the largest…
Ex-PM Boris Johnson is doing a world publicity campaign to sell the world on the necessity of WWIII. Tucker Carlson wanted to ask him some questions. Here is the result.
The Leaders of the Western World are provoking a War that could very easily go Nuclear, and it is the West that is provoking it. The United States, and NATO are dragging us into full scale war with Russia in spite of the fact that neither NATO nor the U.S. is under threat from Russia….
Corruption is a pervasive problem in Ukraine, and it has been a major obstacle to the country’s development since it gained independence in 1991. According to Transparency International, Ukraine is ranked 120 out of 180 countries on the 2021 Corruption Perceptions Index, indicating a high level of corruption. One of the main sources of corruption…
In the first slow days before the House of Representatives finally allowed The Constitution to come first and foremost; when a hardline group of GOP representatives made a would-be Speaker bow down to THEIR rules and requirements, after FIFTEEN BALLOTS, America finally has a Speaker, and the House of Representatives, ruled by a slim GOP majority, which…
Socialism is a political and economic ideology that advocates for the collective ownership and control of the means of production and distribution of wealth. While it has been implemented in various countries around the world, some socialist systems have struggled or failed. Here are some reasons why socialism has not worked in practice: Inefficiency and…
There are often new words created on the hoof that go on to make a major impact on our everyday discourse. For example, 15 years ago nobody had ever heard of ‘Brexit’. Thanks to our vote to depart from the European Union, ‘Brexit’ experienced a 3,400% increase in usage in 2016 alone, before going on…