From Elsewhere: An Observer writer gets it.
I try to read as widely as possible, both those publications whose views I agree with and those with whom I do not. This…
Politics
Former Peer convicted of historic child abuse.
The case of former House of Lords member Baron Nazir Ahmed of Rotherham who has now been convicted of attempted rapes carried out in…
A lot of fuss over something with a precedent.
I’d like to start this piece off by saying that although like many others I voted for Tony Blair in 1997, primarily because of…
From Elsewhere: Remembering Georgi Markov.
I was a teenager when the Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov was murdered by agents of that country’s Communist Government in 1978 in London. His…
This could get very interesting. Trouble in the Mermaids camp.
Like many others I’ve been very concerned with the activities of the pro-paediatric gender transition group Mermaids. Whilst I support the right of adults…
From Elsewhere: David Lammy. One of Labour’s guilty men.
The Labour MP for Tottenham could have been a good politician. He could have represented his constituents faithfully, done good things for his area…
Quote of the Day 27th December 2021 – When religion is lost worse things replace it.
There’s an interesting below the line discussion over at Harry ‘s Place about Boris Johnson and all the various types of individuals who want…
It’s beginning to look a lot like…..
…… the end of the Thatcher and Major governments. It’s never a good thing for a government, no matter what party it might be,…
A nightmare before Christmas for Boris Johnson.
My initial prediction that the Tories would hold onto the Shropshire North constituency by the skin of their teeth turned out to be incorrect….
From Elsewhere: This is why the Statelessness Convention needs reform.
The UN Statelessness Convention was originally brought in to stop nations removing the citizenship of those who they were intent on oppressing. Foremost in…
