Strike It Lucky
With both the General Election and the European Football Championships taking place earlier this week, I thought it would be…
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The Sound of the Silenced
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…
We’re Only Making Plans for Nigel
Just as you were beginning to think this General Election campaign had all the excitement and promise of a Sinclair…
A Choice of No Choice
I am proudly Right-wing. Unashamedly so. Whereas most young people start off in life with Left-leaning proclivities, I started off…
Wrong Train Runnin’
Back in the 1990s, I recall watching a comedy sketch by the fantastic Jasper Carrott, in which he recalled growing…
The Long and the Shortlands of It
When I was growing up in the 1980s in London’s largest geographical borough, the opulence and general orderliness of life…
Their Colonel Nicholson Moment?
‘The Bridge on the River Kwai’ is one of my favourite wartime movies. This 1957 classic, with an ensemble cast…
Anchor’s Away!
Yesterday afternoon, the sickly whiff of clichéd promises emanating from the chamber of Stormont like the gravy trail we used…
Like a Prayer
If there are any followers out there who’ve read about my scholastic childhood before, I’ll first offer my sincere apologies…
A Braver Man versus Spineless Cowards
Ever since Boris Johnson was unceremoniously dumped out of the Conservatives, our governing party has been making a concerted effort…
Isobel and the Tory Protection Racket
Isobel Oakshott points finger away from real culprit Note the blatant and rather transparent attempt to shift blame for the mass immigration to Wagner, and by extension…
Give Devo the Heave-ho!
When Tony Blair’s government launched their crusade to bring devolution to the United Kingdom after their landslide election in 1997,…
Taking the PiSsNI
One of the political campaigns I was proudest to be involved in was the effort to retain the name of…
A Letter to a Land Down Under
Following the decision of the Labor Party in Australia to pass a motion endorsing what they call ‘the reunification of…
Argy Bargy
According to the UK media (never paragons of accuracy), Monday will herald the beginning of the most visible manifestation of…
