Elections
Polling Predictions #13
Well who’d a thunk it. Here we are again and no sign of an election in sight. The pint sized loser must be well frit. In the meantime what with defections (far-right Natalie) and suspensions [more…]
Politics
Conservatives
Is there a new consigliere on the horizon?
There is much fear concerning our next Government, it will be Labour whatever happens, but let’s look on the bright side a bit. The Sunak administration does not deserve to survive, it will be obliterated [more…]
21st Century
Macron Keeps Discrediting France
At this rate, there’s no longer any credible chance that France will revive its independent foreign policy traditions after the five major foreign policy mistakes that Macron made over just the last two years. He’s [more…]
20th Century
In The Steps of The First Army, Part Six
“In the sixth of his articles John Alldridge writes of Bizerta, where a song was born, an Army vindicated itself, and a gigantic building plan went awry.” – Manchester Evening News, November 22 1949 Bizerta, [more…]
Elections
Polling Predictions #12
In the aftermath of the local elections, not all of which have been counted (shades of the Democrats here), can we use their results as an indication of how a GE would unfold. Locals are [more…]
Democracy
Poland’s Dual Military Purpose Infrasturcture Project
Andrzej Duda inadvertently vindicated those Russian observers who long suspected that this transport megaproject right outside of Warsaw had dual military purposes, thus proving that they were right about Poland’s real plans all along. Polish [more…]
Politics
Europe willing to pursue proxy war against Iran through Israel
After Iran’s Saturday strike against Israel, the European Union (EU) will “start the necessary work” to target the Islamic Republic with heavier sanctions, with a focus on the country’s drone technology, according to Josep Borrell, [more…]
Cooking
A View From (Quite Near To) The Greenhouse; All Change, For More Of The Same
I may have mentioned, last time around, that the sheep are returned from their winter sojourn on the hills surrounding Patterdale and Glenridding. As yet we have only hogget in the back field, so the [more…]
20th Century
In The Steps of The First Army, Part Five
“In the fifth of his articles John Alldridge writes of the holy city of Kairouan. It was here that the First Army and the Eighth Army, all the way from El Alamein, finally linked up.” [more…]