Elections
A Polling Station, What Goes On
As may have been previously mentioned, I will be a polling clerk on May 23rd should the Euro elections take place. It’s my first time so I was expecting some training but no, I have [more…]
Politics
Arts
The Unseen Path – Publication
The first Going Postal serialised novel – The Unseen Path – is now published and available to purchase. It was serialised over the course of about 11 months in 2017/18, and ran to about 180,000 [more…]
Authoritarianism
Globalism v. Nationalism: The Third Part
Here we go again. The power struggle between Nationalists and Globalists continues. I did so dearly hope to be writing from a post-EU Britain, but here we are. A brief reminder that I previously wrote [more…]
Conservatives
Some d’Hondt scenarios
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…]
20th Century
Emmet Dalton and the raid on Mountjoy Prison
This is a story about one of the rebels against British rule over Ireland and about one incident in that rebellion in the early 20th century. Emmet Dalton was born in the United States in [more…]
Arts
Placard-waving and Marching to Exit
The undoing of Brexit has been incremental so that it has been difficult to pin down any one point at which to say “Stop!” We may be reaching the end of this Brexit saga to [more…]
European Union
March For Leave – Day 5
I am convinced that there is nothing in the world more glorious than a sunny day in gods own county. On a day that will be marked in history as the day the mighty British [more…]
Authoritarianism
Globalism v. Nationalism Revisited
A while ago I wrote a piece on Globalism v. Nationalism. In essence I argued that the old Left v. Right politics was breaking down, and that instead politics was realigning on Globalist v. Nationalist [more…]
Authoritarianism
Remainers Didn’t Know What They Were Voting For
How often do we hear the tired refrain that leave voters didn’t know what they were voting for? Certain options were not on the ballot paper, usually followed by an insult to our intelligence. But [more…]