The State Opening of Parliament on Monday 14 October marks the formal start of the parliamentary year. The Queen’s Speech sets out the government’s agenda for the next session of Parliament and outlines proposed policies [more…]
“When he had said this, Jesus called in a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!” The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped with strips of linen, and a cloth around his face.” John 11:43-44 What [more…]
Let me first fire a major pre-emptive shot across the bows of any reader who is a lawyer, judge or indeed any part of the legal system. I am not a lawyer, and apart from [more…]
“In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.” Judges 21:25 Once again, this piece is probably threatened with being overtaken by events, such is the fast-moving pace of the political scene at present. Last [more…]
Anyone who has not been living under a rock for the past few decades, and certainly post Brexit, will have failed to notice the rot and corruption that enshrouds our institutions, businesses and indeed our [more…]
Hello again, friends. Last time out we looked at the state of the parties and the Tory leadership race. Since then Boris Johnson, as was widely expected, has become Prime Minister. Trump has gone into [more…]
Last time out I wrote about the continuing collapse of the Tories, the divisions within Labour, as well as the rise of the Brexit Party and the increase in political violence. So where are we [more…]
I served my time as a Toolmaker in a contract shop on the Kirkby Trading Estate near Liverpool, finishing and fully qualified in 1961 I realised that staying at the same place you would always [more…]
A friend of many years’ standing has sent me an essay written by his 21-year-old grandson, now entering his final post-graduate year. It purports to establish that Capitalism and human survival on Planet Earth are [more…]
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