Is this the current British Government’s ‘Gerald Ratner Moment’?
Now and again a commercial, charitable or governmental organisation will make a publicity faux pas. In Government a minister can go ‘off script’ and…
January 2026
A sign that the Overton Window is truly shifting fast.
Many Britons of a certain vintage will remember the clothes designer Jeff Banks. Some may have bought his clothes but many others will recall…
Reflections on a defection
So Robert Jenrick is the surprise defection from the Conservatives to Reform. This I must admit is a far more welcome defection to Reform…
Cuba Libre (at last)?
The Communists in Cuba have been a thorn in the side of the Americans and the broader West for the entirety of my life….
After so many failed protests will this time be the time that leads to freedom for the Iranians?
The answer to the question posed in the title is we really don’t know. I’ve been following the social media accounts of Iranian exiles…
We start the year with a big Trump Surprise
Although tensions between the Communist government of Venezuela and the United States were pretty obvious over the last six months or so I didn’t…
Minnesota’s massive Somali fraud scandal. What lessons could it teach us in Europe?
There is a massive Somali community that has been transplanted from Somalia and elsewhere into the US state of Minnesota. There have long been…
Happy New Year 2026
I’d like to take this opportunity to wish all the readers of this blog a very Happy New Year for 2026. It’s fair to…
