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…]
Politics
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…]
Arts
Fakenews and Degeneracy – The Farage Tape
I’ve just watched an interview with a national Party political leader. The interviewers were Piers Morgan and Susanna Reid. The interviewee – Nigel Farage, Leader of the Brexit Party. Before you watch it (link below), [more…]
Arts
Why Germany? Part 1
In this brief essay, I’m going to argue that German nationalism is inherently flawed and a danger to others. I will draw on historical, cultural, social and other empirical evidence to make my point. I [more…]
America
Trump’s D-Day Landing – Changing Politics For Good!
As a Direct Democracy Party representative I am delighted to welcome the State Visit of President Donald J Trump to the United Kingdom. There is no greater historical bond between two nations shaped by an [more…]