Burnham thwarted
If a week is a long time in politics then a day can also be long. Not more than a few hours after I published…
Politics
‘Bodybags’ Burnham to run for Parliament.
There’s been an awful lot of speculation that Andy Burnham the current Mayor or Greater Manchester will stand for election for the House of…
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…
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…
