Economics
Great Expectations (of Free Money)
‘It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.’ So begins Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities with a line that might apply as much to the modern-day state of British welfare [more…]
Blog
Fiction
The Past is Present, Chapter Fourteen
Dave watched the car drive off, he pulled on his balaclava pulled down only as far as his forehead, it looked like a woolly hat. He reminded the chief inspector to say nothing, “Listen only, [more…]
Arts
Fabulously Flamboyant Friday: The Day Music Died Pt 3 – Live Aid
Greetings pop pickers and please be welcome to tonight’s Fabulously Flamboyant Friday and another of our fortnightly mastications upon the marshmallowy pillows of musical magnificence. In the first two parts of this series we examined [more…]
Islam
Zarah Sultana. Avoid.
Appropriately born on Halloween 1993 in Lozells, Birmingham, to a Muslim family of Pakistani heritage, Zarah Sultana is one of four sisters, her grandfather having emigrated from Maipur in the 1960s. Sultana attended Holte School [more…]
Arts
Jinnie’s Story, Book Eight – Chapter Nineteen
Brooke joined the meeting in the Board Room on Thursday as the team started to polish the presentation, deciding who would present what part of the programme and who would answer what questions. It was [more…]
Economics
Labour – Renters’ Rights Bill, Part Three
10 million immigrants officially have increased the U.K. population, the true figure will of course be higher, no one has ever voted for this, one of the results of this invasion apart from the pressure [more…]
Hobbies
Playing With Electricity – Part 4
Damn You Morus Nigra! ‘John Swerved as Mary, Queen of Scots, was busy with her throne but it wouldn’t flush so her face turned to stone when Jane put her hand on John’s gear stick [more…]
Communism
Tax, Tax, Tax
I was born in 1949, now in 2025 Great Britain has the highest tax burden in my lifetime & I would argue the most degraded public services. Post war the UK has suffered from unrelenting [more…]
Diary
A (Burts’ Eye)View From The Greenhouse; What’s Anglo-futurism, When It’s All At Home?
It’s an easy mistake to make, Burt and I (although, TBF, Burt’s a few inches taller than I am) are easily confused when viewed from the rear, bending down (as it were). Any road up, [more…]