Girlguiding gets dragged kicking and screaming into the world of reality.
The last ten years or so have seen many of Britain’s public, private and voluntary institutions succumb to a form of madness. It been…
Britain
You know things are bad when you assume at first that the ‘failing state’ in this scenario might be Britain.
Israel is a ‘haven for the oppressed’ among the world’s Jews and it is referred to as such in the prayer for Israel in…
Quote of the day (2) – Liberalism is dead because it doesn’t have strong arguments in its favour.
I’ve come to admire Peter North the political commentator. He doesn’t sugarcoat his diagnosis of what is wrong with the UK but nearly all…
From Elsewhere – Five years on from ‘Despised’.
Five years ago the trade unionist and political commentator Paul Embery published his book ‘Despised’. This book is a fascinating explanation of how the…
There does indeed look like there’s a crisis in capitalism or at least in some parts of it.
I spent a very entertaining evening yesterday having a drink and a chat with a Trotskyite friend. We disagree politically on almost anything from…
A sinner repents.
Every single individual on this planet gets things wrong. Every person makes mistakes. Every person commits errors or does something or says something wrong…
Another massive UK Government failure.
All governments, at least those in Britain, fail either completely or partially at some point in their administrative term. All governments make mistakes, some…
Take the BBC to the cleaners Mr Trump.
The BBC is a once revered broadcaster which like so many other of Britain’s institutions has failed to live up to its once good…
From Elsewhere: Were the 1970’s all that bad for the UK?
I remember the 1970’s, I remember the political turmoil, the year of two general elections, the industrial strife, the dreadful economic situation, the feeling…
Who will rid us of this turbulent moron? Starmer probably won’t. It’s down to the people of Tottenham to do that
. If there is any one politician who is indicative of the drop in quality of Britain’s politicians and political classes then it’s David Lammy…
