My great-grandfather on my father’s mother’s side served in Afghanistan. Being hill, mountain and lake types, our local regiment, The Border Regiment, deployed to the disputed territory between that country and British India in the [more…]
On Thursday Starmer was cock-a-hoop about his one in one out plan he conjured up with the frog president Micron. The diminutive Napoleon like figure was fresh from losing a court case where he had [more…]
Monday Good morning all, the cat is back! I have had a lovely couple of weeks off and the weather has been pretty good. I have spent lots of time out on my favourite windowsill [more…]
‘It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.’ So begins Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities with a line that might apply as much to the modern-day state of British welfare [more…]
Appropriately born on Halloween 1993 in Lozells, Birmingham, to a Muslim family of Pakistani heritage, Zarah Sultana is one of four sisters, her grandfather having emigrated from Maipur in the 1960s. Sultana attended Holte School [more…]
10 million immigrants officially have increased the U.K. population, the true figure will of course be higher, no one has ever voted for this, one of the results of this invasion apart from the pressure [more…]
I was born in 1949, now in 2025 Great Britain has the highest tax burden in my lifetime & I would argue the most degraded public services. Post war the UK has suffered from unrelenting [more…]
It’s an easy mistake to make, Burt and I (although, TBF, Burt’s a few inches taller than I am) are easily confused when viewed from the rear, bending down (as it were). Any road up, [more…]
Introduction In the century since the emergence of socialism as a political force in Britain, its early promises have been cynically distorted by the very institutions it once sought to reform. The struggle for social [more…]
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