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Net Migration

21st July 2025 well_chuffed 2167 Comments

One of the migration statistics that really annoys me is net migration. This is obviously immigration minus emigration. It is a basically pointless measurement aimed mostly at avoiding the charge of racism. Guilty as charged [more…]

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Pen Portrait: Sir Alex Younger, Former Head of MI6

19th July 2025 Always Worth Saying 2036 Comments

A friend tells me that during their first interview, a candidate for the Intelligence Branch of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) is informed the job involves ‘getting the hang’ of people of interest. The hopeful [more…]

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One out, all out – and none in

14th July 2025 well_chuffed 2598 Comments

On Thursday Starmer was cock-a-hoop about his one in one out plan he conjured up with the frog president Micron. The diminutive Napoleon like figure was fresh from losing a court case where he had [more…]

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Tax, Tax, Tax

9th July 2025 Godfrey Bloom 1981 Comments

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…]

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From Socialism to Welfarism: the Betrayal of the Working Class

8th July 2025 Going Postal 2489 Comments

Introduction In the century since the emergence of socialism as a political force in Britain, its early promises have been cynically distorted by the very institutions it once sought to reform.  The struggle for social [more…]

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The Reece Committee: Lessons from history

30th April 2025 Going Postal 2334 Comments

In the early 1950s, against the backdrop of the Cold War and growing concerns over potential clandestine efforts at internal subversion, the United States Congress launched an investigation into the activities of major tax-exempt foundations. [more…]

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Lands At Stake

5th April 2025 Always Worth Saying 2501 Comments

A conversation that stuck An old conversation sticks in my mind. A decade or so later, through the synergy of passing time and the illumination provided by events, one plus one becomes three. On the [more…]

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We are running out of bread and circuses

20th March 2025 Rookwood 1862 Comments

It takes a lot to keep a population anaesthetised. Anaesthesia, as medical Puffins will attest, is a very tricky and demanding mistress. A dash too much potion here, or an insufficient soupçon of elixir there, [more…]

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Bill Browder

17th March 2025 well_chuffed 2120 Comments

We had a look at Earl Browder, one time leader of the Communist Party of the USA who was up to his neck in all kinds of espionage for the Soviets. Of course being a [more…]

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