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Capitalism
The Crucial Goal That Environmental Activists Reject
For some time now I have pondered why environmental activists seem to reject evidence that capitalism has been making the world a better place for all levels of society. The pampered aristocracy of just a [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week Three Hundred And Twenty-Nine
Monday Good morning, everyone. It’s nice and sunny at the moment, but there is thunder and lightning forecast for later. I don’t like all those flashes and bangs. As usual, Legohead has been at Chequers [more…]
Business
A Plutocrats’ Tour of The North
For generations, the phrase “grim up north” has lingered in the national imagination — conjuring images of soot-stained skylines, struggling towns, and industries long past their prime. It is a shorthand that flattens the region [more…]
Conservatives
Labour’s bad boys – Part 15 The Hackney Abacus
We linger a while longer in 2023 where we encounter Diane Julie Abbott who has been the MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington since 1987. After getting a 2:2 in History she went through [more…]
Democracy
An Alliance of Arrogance
“I was in Alliance” is a euphemism for the hollow ethos of a certain “old school” elite that is totally disconnected from everyday Kenyan society. May 13, 2026 In April of 1963, with Kenya in [more…]
Diary
A View From (Just Adjacent To) The Greenhouse; King O T’North….Issit?
Over the course of my fortnightly ramblings, my loyal reader may, (or more likely) may not have noticed a growing pile of rotting wood inside a rail fence which sits just outside the shed. It [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week Three Hundred And Twenty-Eight
Monday Good morning, my friends, from a warm but cloudy Downing Street. After last week’s disastrous by-election for the Government, Legohead has spent the weekend struggling to come to terms with things. He seems to [more…]
Conservatives
Labour’s bad boys – Part 14 Geraint Davies
Are we scraping the barrel yet, well not really. We are moving on and are at about 2023, still plenty of grist in the mill to deal with. We turn our attention to Geraint Richard [more…]