A bad judgment with even worse political optics.
There’s really only one big political story in the UK today and that’s the decision of three judges at the Court of Appeal to…
August 2025
From Elsewhere: Britain’s crash and burn economy.
Those of us who can recall, even vaguely, the 1970’s or who have spoken to those who were taxpaying workers during that time know…
Of flags and those who bitch about them.
Britain is a strange place filled with strange but often lovely people. Its history and its geography have created its people, just as the…
Weekend Movie – ‘Wrong Number’
‘Wrong Number’ is a short, tightly written British crime drama movie from 1959. I won’t give you any spoilers but the plot revolves around…
It’s ‘Your Party’ and I’ll laugh if I want to.
The saga of the Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana political vehicle, provisionally called ‘Your Party’, is something that should be a matter for concern…
It’s always good to get some good news in these troubling times.
It’s not often in the crumbling, authoritarian, badly run shithole that is the United Kingdom that I can bring you some unalloyed good news….
Addressing some rumours – How close are we to a ‘British Beslan’ and what can we do about it?
There are some terrorist attacks that are so monstrous that they don’t just stick in your mind but you can recall exactly where you…
Quote of the Day 10/08/2025 -What would Sam Gamgee think of what’s happened to Britain?
David Betz the professor of war studies who has made some worrying predictions about the state of Britain and the ever increasing likelihood that…
Weekend Movie – ‘Foxhole In Cairo’
A great little wartime spy story for you all this week. ‘Foxhole In Cairo’ (1960) is about an attempt by the Germans to get…
From Elsewhere. The decline of London (Part Two)
Following on from Aja The Empress’s most excellent but incredibly depressing piece about the decline of London comes this video of the public having a…
