Dear Reader, I would like you to close your eyes, concentrate your mind and picture the following analogy: You rent an apartment where all the rooms are painted a hideous bright red. On the day you move in, you ask the landlord whether you can get rid of the red and have the walls painted…
I’ve just finished reading a book about Captain James Cook. En route across the Pacific in 1777 on his boat called Resolution, Cook spent a short while on the island of Tahiti. One day in early September Cook, with two of his crew (the ship’s surgeon Dr William Anderson, and a Mr John Webber), travelled…
One of the things that always makes me cringe when I’m watching an international football match between England and Germany is the crass behaviour of many of the England fans. If they’re not singing ’10 German Bombers’, they’re making stupid references to the Nazis, or else claiming with great gusto on how “England won the…
After a stressful week, I came home last night wanting some light comedic relief. So I decided to watch one of my favourite episodes of the classic ‘Fawlty Towers’ series entitled ‘The Builders’. The plot revolves around Basil employing the services of a cowboy Irish builder called O’Reilly, whose men proceed to make a number…
In some ways it’s hard to believe we’re now almost a decade on from one of the most politically fraught periods of my life. On Thursday, 18th September, 2014 this United Kingdom came close to losing one-third of its entire territory in a government sop to an Anglophobic separatist party that had cruised to regional…
My career, over the last 27 or so years, has been in the field of disability healthcare and leisure provision. This sometimes involves taking people with severe physical difficulties out on activities and visits for the day. On Tuesday (w/c 19/08/2024), I booked a slot for a wheelchair user at the National Railway Museum in…
One of the many depressing things about living in this age is that what you see with your own eyes is lied about and propagandised out of mind by lying governments and a lying media. The more you see it, the more they try to convince you that what you’re seeing is a mirage. When…
My, my, it’s certainly been an eventful summer so far for those who like to wade in up to their ear lobes in multiculturalism and diversity. First off, we had a Colombian national leaving dismembered body parts in two suitcases on Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol. It turns out he’d travelled from London with remains…
By Matt Toomer Since the Labour government of 1997, Britain has faced significant challenges related to immigration and multiculturalism. Despite the growing public concern, there seems to be a reluctance among our politicians to engage in a frank and open discussion on these issues. Over the past few decades, the UK has seen a steady…
‘Who are you going to believe? Me or your own eyes?’ This quote is wrongly attributed to Groucho Marx in the 1933 classic ‘Duck Soup’. Actually, it was Chico disguised as Groucho responding to a statement from Margaret Dumont’s character, Gloria Teasdale. It was earlier today when I woke up to the devastation that had…
With both the General Election and the European Football Championships taking place earlier this week, I thought it would be a good opportunity to point out the similarities between the England football squad and our newly-elected Labour government. Both are symptoms of a country that has forsaken talent and ambition for good old-fashioned mediocrity; both…
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 considering the use of emergency powers in the event Marine Le Pen’s Rassemblement National party wins the forthcoming national plebiscite in France (https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/is-macron-considering-using-frances-emergency-powers/). In the United States, a politicised court has stymied Donald Trump’s desire…
Just as you were beginning to think this General Election campaign had all the excitement and promise of a Sinclair C5, Monday’s bombshell announcement from Nigel Farage that he has assumed the leadership of the Reform party and will stand for Parliament in the Essex seat of Clacton has livened things up in a way…
I am proudly Right-wing. Unashamedly so. Whereas most young people start off in life with Left-leaning proclivities, I started off my political life as a teenager somewhere between Norman Tebbit and Margaret Thatcher on the ideological scale, and gradually moved even further to the Right as I reached middle age. Nobody is born with their…