The Conservative Party and the Labour Party, the duelling banjos of UK politics, took a stuffing, a stuck-pig type stuffing in the EU elections. Squeal piggy, squeal! Burt Reynolds was the man, the alpha male [more…]
Wow, friends. What a few weeks it has been since the last piece I wrote. The battle between nationalism and globalism continues, as does the collapse of traditional left versus right politics. Evidence of this [more…]
European elections are conducted under the d’Hondt system, which works like this: Each voter has one vote and marks his ‘X’ against his choice of party. Each party puts up a list of candidates, in order [more…]
According to Touchstone in ‘As You Like It’, the seventh form of lie is “…the lie direct” (Act V, Scene IV): our Politicians do not often use this form – for instance, the late and [more…]
I’ve been thinking. The Referendum result was a one-off, a gaggle of disparate groups that came together as a citizen army to win what the Remainers thought was an unwinnable fight. And we won! The [more…]
Let me just say something about the N word, yes that troublesome six letter word, that’s right, normal. I know that quite a few of you rarely even step outside of your homes in these [more…]
It was during an English lesson during the late 1970s – English lessons were never about spelling, grammar, creative writing, etymology, poetry or literature, always, always politics – when a short term supply teacher told [more…]
Whenever I hear the subject of grammar schools and selective education come up I pay attention and listen with more than a modicum of interest. When discussed by our esteemed establishment media it’s usually accompanied [more…]
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