SUBSTACK

We start the New Year where we finished the old one – with the UK borders wide open.

Return of the Jihadi bride

Australia seems to have been chosen as the trailblazer for censoring free speech across the western world.

I always liked a song with a dramatic story to it and here are four fantastic examples where it all ends in, well, death!

The heat surrounding the granting of British citizenship to renowned violent ant-Semite racist Alaa Abd El Fattah is increasing and it is making the Government’s “delight” at his return to the UK look increasingly untenable.

As we prepare to wave goodbye to 2025, Spotify has kindly provided me with a list of my most played songs and I wanted to share the top three with you!

Let’s cut to the chase; I believe that the United States ought to ban the burqa—that full covering that hides a woman’s face completely—in all public places.

I have a simple rule of thumb; If actor Brian Cox is in favour of something, I am against it.

My choices of reading material this past year are as eclectic as my music tastes and I thought I would share some of the books which gave me great pleasure in 2025.

As the sands of time run out on 2025, I thought I would give you a hostage to fortune by offering you a few forecasts for 2026!

It’s interesting to note the studied silence of the mainstream media about the series of massive fraud cases targeting federal and state social services programs in the Somali community in Minnesota.

Did you see that the Irish Government has announced that it intends to use its forthcoming Presidency of the EU to remove all anonymity from social media?

July 2025 marked one year of Labour in Government and it also saw Prime Minister Keir Starmer force through watered down welfare reform bill in Parliament after a major Labour rebellion threatened to derail it.​ This was a humiliation.

Before we leave this year, I thought I might put together 12 images that sum up this year.

2025 comes to an end with the UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and several members of his cabinet hailing the news that a man called Alaa Abdel Fattah is now living in the UK.