Capitalism
Farce and Tragedy
Once again the music has stopped, and much like the Kenyan child of the ’80s and ’90s, today’s young are watching and listening as the adults reel under the weight of IMF-driven cuts to social [more…]
Politics
Diary
A View From (Just By) The Greenhouse; Diversity? It’s Our Strength…Innit?
I arrived at the greenhouse on Saturday to find that Burt had returned from his winter sojourn in a bit of a sorry state. He’d been visiting distant relatives somewhere in central Europe (either Albania, [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week Three Hundred And Twenty-Four
Monday Good morning, my friends. It was lovely and sunny this morning when I woke up, not too cold when I popped out, and it doesn’t look like it’s going to rain. But the forecast [more…]
Conservatives
Labour’s bad boys – Part 11 Claudia Webbe
Well she is obviously not a boy though Spanner would be hard pressed to make a decision but let us use “boys” generically. Claudia, a professional race baiter of whom there are many in politics, [more…]
20th Century
Kenya’s Austerity Loop
For the second time, Kenya has pressed its palms against the cold marble of the IMF and the World Bank, asking the same architects of global austerity to diagnose wounds we have spent time inflicting [more…]
America
TwelvetyD Chess – DJT 2.0
President Trump has claimed that the US military campaign against Iran is to “defend the American people”, while many critics – even some outriders on GP – have alleged that it’s to distract from the [more…]
21st Century
Was the US/Israeli Attack on Iran Necessary?
The primary reason given for the joint US/Israeli attack on Iran was that Iran would not give up its nuclear program, which it claimed was for peaceful purposes only. The US and Israel viewed this [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week Two Hundred And Twenty-Three
Monday Good morning, my friends, and a Happy Easter Monday to you all. I hope you have had a load of chocolate eggs. It is a beautiful, sunny morning here in London, with not a [more…]
Conservatives
Labour’s bad boys – Part 10 The Expenses Scandal
In 2009 the Daily Telegraph unleashed the parliamentary expenses scandal. This affected many MPs of all parties probably just about equally across the House. We will only concern ourselves with the Labour miscreants of whom [more…]