The days when independent councillors were well-meaning, often single-cause, advocates saving a hospital or moving a gypsy camp, are long gone. Although Reform UK caught the headlines in early May’s local elections, their success was [more…]
Question Time 8th May 2025 The Panel: James Murray (Labour) Graham Stuart (Conservative) Richard Tice (Reform UK) Calum Miller (LibDem) Jo Grady (University and College Union) Venue: Hull Well. One feels like the director of [more…]
Might every age get the Pope it deserves? If so, then what of the Age of Francis I? Jorge Mario Bergoglio, once Archbishop of Buenos Aires and the latest Bishop of Rome, died on Easter [more…]
Apologies for last week’s Railway Review, which was far too populist. An article on a mineral railway in Northern Brazil is exactly the type of thing you might read about in a 1960s edition of [more…]
You’ll have to take this with a sprinkling of salt — or several fistfuls if you’re the sort who needs receipts for everything. To be frank, I don’t much care if you believe me or [more…]
How I miss Question Time. One hankers after £30,000-an-hour Fiona Bruce pontificating on inequality before a representative audience of progressive liberals who have a relative at the BBC. As our £110,000-a-year elected representatives take a [more…]
A recent breakfast TV interview highlighted an awkward difference between the BBC’s Naga Munchetty and Kemi Badenoch. Questioned about the Netflix drama Adolescence, the Conservative Party leader stated she’d not followed the series and likely [more…]
Last week’s trip to Albania being too mainstream, this edition of Railway Review (how I yearn for the return of Question Time!) was going to be of an obscure South American mineral line. Observing the [more…]
Under a waning moon, three furtive figures make their way towards the island’s Constance Bay. Silent, gaunt and burdened, they carry two canvas bags bearing scant rations and a few petty, pilfered provisions — enough [more…]
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