Elections
The Brexit Party Big Vision Rally
This has been a Brexit junkie’s summer. And like the heat hope has been rising. 1st of June was the big Action Day + Rally in Peterborough to help Mike Greene get elected as an [more…]
Politics
Conservatives
Globalism v. Nationalism Part V
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…]
Politics
How They Rule Ya
The only way to ‘Change Politics for Good’, is to acknowledge the magnitude of the problem and understand how easy it is to resolve. There are only two things you need – co-ordination and tens [more…]
Authoritarianism
From Draft to Bookshop – A Journey
Almost two years ago this weekend my wife and I, rather nervously, drove into a small Devon village on our way to visit a family that I had only met through Going Postal but who [more…]
Arts
How I stopped being a Lefty and became literally Hitler
This is what I’ve been putting off writing for the longest time now: a personal account of how things became the way they are now, at least ideologically speaking. When I grew up and all [more…]
Politics
Confronting The Climate Emergency, Part 2
Tasked with heading the challenge of confronting the declared CLIMATE EMERGENCY, Councillors and politicians throughout the land and all over the world are sounding the alarm bells and preaching to the people: WE MUST ACT [more…]
Physics
Confronting The Climate Emergency, Part 1
I write this on the eve of my first meeting of the Holme Valley Parish Council Climate Emergency Steering Group [HVPCCESG], a meeting I shall be attending as the newly elected Councillor for the Netherthong [more…]
20th Century
The devil is always in the detail
Cast your mind back to the morning of Friday the 2nd of May 1997. The British electorate had overwhelmingly swept Anthony Charles Lynton Blair to power, in a landslide victory that conjures imagery of a [more…]
America
Separating the Wheat from the Chaff
Had I been the Starship Enterprise on Monday 3rd June 2019, Scotty would have said “…she can nae take n’more Captain!”. As it happens, warp factor 10 was not attained and the engines were switched [more…]