Happy Tenth Independence Day To Britain.
Today is the tenth anniversary of the vote by Britons to leave the European Union. It was an achievement that has not been matched…
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An apology. I don’t always get fast moving stories right first off.
Dear readers. I’d like to make an apology for some inaccuracies in a previous article on the subject of the monstrous attack in Belfast…
Growing anger and dissatisfaction with Britain’s policing system felt by Britons.
Public satisfaction with Britain’s police has dropped down to about 54% today from around 72% in 2019. There are a lot of factors that…
Where’s their womb lining going to go, they going to keep it in a box?
Monty Python’s Life of Brian was not only one of the greatest comedy films ever made but some of the sketches in it have…
I wanna tell you a story, as Max Bygraves often said. This one’s about an ‘Earworm’ song.
I want to tell you a story of how a song can get permanently embedded in one’s mind due to an association with an…
VE Day
Although in the UK much media and public attention is being focused on the local council elections we must not forget that today is…
Happy St George’s Day
It’s St George’s Day and as St George is the Patron Saint of England I’d like to wish all this blog’s English readers a…
From Elsewhere: More happened in 1776 than just the American Revolution.
There’s an excellent piece that’s worth reading over at the Critic magazine regarding what it is like to live through a period of momentous…
Yom HaShoah
At sunset tonight the day of remembrance of the Holocaust, or Shoah as it is called in Hebrew, starts. I will not write much…
A joke that has a large element of truth about it.
This one is very very good and it was from Peter the Hungarian over at the Harry’s Place blog in their April Open Forum…
