Economics
Feelz and Squealz
Watching Bodybags making his first speech at Conference as leader I was reminded of a famous quote attributed to George Burns. “Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made”. [more…]
Articles by well_chuffed
Conservatives
Tory Bad Boys Part – 04 Thomas Dugdale
I had never heard of this one but on the face of it this was a case of a minister doing the honourable thing and resigning as a result of his civil servants screwing things [more…]
20th Century
What does our nuclear deterrent actually deter
We have had a nuclear deterrent for 72 years or so. It may have deterred someone from dropping a nuclear bomb on us at some point but does it still deter anything. It has no [more…]
Conservatives
Tory Bad Boys – Part 03 Reginald Maudling
Reggie was one of the big beasts of the Tory Party in the 50s and 60s. He was another who was hovering around the leadership along with RAB Butler. Neither of them quite managed to [more…]
Human Interest
Optimism for a change
In a world of unrelenting gloom and incompetence, much of which I blame on socialism and all things left, may I be allowed to offer a few words of optimism. During my three quarters of [more…]
Conservatives
Tory Bad Boys – Part 02 John Profumo
Quite possibly one of the most damaging events in the history of the Tory Party. Everything was going wrong for them, they seemed like a bunch of incompetents. From the great train robbery, spies in [more…]
Drinking
In praise of red wine
Way back in the 70s or it might even have been the 60s, the French Wine Industry insisted that red wine was really good for you. I took this to heart, forget the butter is [more…]
Conservatives
Tory Bad Boys – Part 01 Ernest Marples
I have chosen to start this with a piece on Ernest Marples. I remember him as Minister for Transport opening the first motorway section of the M1 in 1959 when I was 8, technically it [more…]
Elections
A bandwagon minus its wheels
The wheels are coming off the Bodybags bandwagon already; they may actually be off already and if not, probably will be by the time this gets published. In a mere couple of weeks our Andeh [more…]