They should have seen something like this coming. A partial ‘own goal’ for Reform.
I read on Turbulent Times, the website of Dr Richard North, about a recent hatchet job done on the Reform Party by the UK…
2026
Spain produces a couple of potential candidates for a Darwin Award.
I was scrolling through the September Hangout page of the Harry’s Place blog, which at present has a lot of interesting and informed commentary…
Quote of the day 02/09/26 – How absolutely buggered is Britain’s economy? Caution swearing.
The answer is pretty buggered I reckon. We have, for a start, a massively depleted industrial sector that has not been properly supported by…
Ideology, another reason why the NHS is increasingly unsafe for patients.
One of the downsides of having your healthcare system run along the lines of telecommunications systems in the Britain of the 1970’s or a…
Aaaand he’s gone. Unlamented, unloved, unpopular and unpatriotic.
It appears that Sir Keir Starmer, the holder of the unofficial record of being the least popular Prime Minister for decades is going to…
‘Mostly peaceful’ or rather not.
I’ve attended the Notting Hill Carnival (NHC) back in the 1990’s and it was a bit edgy back then but it appears to have…
The blob of idiocy and abject cowardice in uniform, aka the Metropolitan Police, comes out to play.
Older Britons when thinking of London’s Metropolitan Police might think of the days when Scotland Yard had the best investigators, the specialists, the people…
From Elsewhere: A good bit of archive digging and solid investigative journalism from the German Press.
I’m not old enough to have been around at the time of the trial in Jerusalem of Adolf Eichmann the Nazi functionary who sent…
Book Review: A Tweet Too far by Lucy Connolly and Gen Nevis ISBN 978-1-0369-5728-5
I’ve been following the story of Mrs Lucy Connolly ever since she was arrested and imprisoned in 2024 for committing one of Britain’s many…
From Elsewhere: A major coup for West Yorkshire Police
I’m not normally given to dishing out praise on the police forces of Yorkshire knowing what I know about these forces failure to stop…
