SUBSTACK

The UK media is absolutely replete with coverage of the Grenfell Tower fire report that came out yesterday.

So what are we to make of the news that the UK will immediately suspend 30 of its 350 arms export licences with Israel because there was “a risk such equipment might be used to commit serious violations of international humanitarian law”, according to Foreign minister David Lammy?

It is often said that in order to gain POWER, sacrifices have to be made.

Let’s talk about Donald Trump’s recent announcement that he would like to see the state pay for IVF.

Is Princess Catherine planning more of a return to the public realm?

Let’s start by asking the simple question – does anyone CARE who becomes the next Leader of the Conservative Party?

I am sure we all remember where we were when the news came in on August 31st 1997 that Diana, Princess of Wales, had been killed in a car crash.

I love it when my loyal readers leave comments that trigger me and so it was that I have come to consider – are Demons real?

Well, we have seen the Supreme Court in Brazil ban the X/Twitter platform from that country.

Much of what we discuss here is transient and of the moment but I frequently consider what lies beneath it…

Well, we can’t really be that surprised that Labour would seek to restrict free speech and indeed make us censor our very thoughts lest we face “the full weight of the law”.

Thank goodness the Notting Hill Carnival is over and it provides us with a moment to not only reflect on what happened but more particularly what DIDN’T happen in the aftermath!

“Britpop” was the soundtrack that accompanied the rise of Labour’s Tony Blair to political power in the UK and there was no band more closely associated it with it than Oasis, the Manchester band who went on to claim international fame.

What connects the imprisonment of Nurse Lucy Letby, Mike Lynch the owner of the Bayesian Superyacht that sank whilst at anchor off Sicily, and possibly H.A.A.R.P?

Let’s start with what we appear to know.