Conservatives
Labour’s bad boys – Part 23 Satan Blair
Our first Prime Minister, or First Lord of the Treasury, was Robert Walpole in the earlyish 1700s. His motto was “every man has his price and I know it bar a few” and some of [more…]
Month: August 2026
20th Century
The Westland Whirlwind
The Whirlwind was a twin-engine, heavy fighter developed by Westland Aircraft, not to be confused by the Westland Whirlwind helicopter of many years later. It was developed in the 1930s as a heavy fighter and [more…]
European Union
The Avoidable Inferno: How the EU, Eco Lunacy and Bureaucracy Fried France’s Forest
The MSM news tells us that the huge summer wildfire near Bordeaux is clear evidence of an unpreventable “climate catastrophe”. History proves otherwise. The Landes forest near Bordeaux is entirely artificial. It is Europe’s largest [more…]
Cooking
A View From (Just Outside) The Greenhouse; A Slice Of Life
Not being too knowledgeable where apiary is concerned, but also knowing that some bees do build their homes underground, both the head of the B&M department and myself assumed that the black and yellow stripey [more…]
Politics
YooKay2026…… A State broken by Corruption (Part 7)
By this point the pattern is visible. The remaining question is why it is allowed to continue. The answer is not that everyone inside the system is secretly coordinating. It is simpler than that. The [more…]
19th Century
Beamish: the Museum that said yes to everything
You may be surprised to learn that a working time machine has already been invented in County Durham. It exists because one man refused to let the region throw its own history into the skip. [more…]
Labour
No. 10 o’t North won’t cost anything
During the Knob’s first week he announced Number 10 o’t North and stated confidently it would actually cost nothing because it would come out of existing Cabinet Office budgets, around £1.75 billion. He finished off [more…]
America
Libya – The lance to drain the Iranian boil?
A defining pillar of The Donald’s ‘Merica 1st agenda has been national energy security. Paired with the diplomatic momentum of the Abraham Accords, that strategy has reshaped regional alliances, strengthened U.S. partnerships and reinforced domestic economic stability. Well, [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week Three Hundred And Thirty-Five
Monday Good morning, my happy readers. It is a momentous day in the Street today. It’s the last day of Legohead’s premiership and the first day of Mascara Man, my seventh PM and probably not [more…]