Do we have ‘mushroom ministers’ kept in the dark and fed BS?
If a recent story in Britain’s Daily Telegraph is correct then we do. Apparently according to the Telegraph ministers were kept in the dark…
Britain
Wither Kemi? Wither the Tories?
The Tory party is being hit by a veritable wave of defections to the Reform Party. Some of those who have defected I would…
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…
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…
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…
From Elsewhere: A return to Britain of the 1970’s could be on the cards but in a far far worse way.
Britain’s decline is now so obvious that not only does it attract negative comment from the US government but there are increasingly those, myself…
Well done Ms Badenoch. A politician that has started to identify one of the problems we suffer from.
I gave up on the Tories or at least on voting for or supporting the Tories back in 2020. I’d voted Tory in 2019…
A question I never ever wanted to hear my son or any child to have to ask.
On the day of the Islamic atrocity in Sydney, Australia, I went with my wife and son to a building somewhere in the West…
