Arts
The Clairvoyant
Perhaps the one aspiration all parties bar the Greens hold is to try to engineer some growth into the economy. Most of the blame attaches to the Treasury but the country seems unable to accomplish [more…]
Politics
Politics
BritSitRep2026 – An overview of all that matters (Part 2)
The popular conception of politics, taught in schools and reinforced by every TV sofa politics show, is that the people elect representatives, the representatives debate the laws, and the laws are then administered by a [more…]
Communism
Change where nothing changes
The morning after the Makerfield by election GB News had a quick word with former Labour MP Gloria del Piero (wood and would). She was absolutely gushing about Bodybags, I suspect she was somewhat more [more…]
Democracy
Always Worth Saying’s By-election Review
The Puffin is a well-travelled bird gracing a wide variety of habitats. Rural France, various parts of Spain, the New World, the Debatable Lands, territories where the leopard runs free, Norn Iron, the Philippine Islands, [more…]
Conservatives
Labour’s bad boys – Part 16 Mike Amesbury
There have been instances of MPs getting a bit punchy after over indulging in the in-house bars in the House of Shame. This has largely been fisticuffs between MPs themselves. However, in what may be [more…]
Politics
YooKay2026…… A State broken by Corruption (Part 1)
When a bank flags a transaction as suspicious, it is not usually because someone has confessed to a crime. It is because the numbers do not make sense. A property sells for three times its [more…]
Labour
No reflection in the mirror
And there you all were thinking this was going to be about vampires, sorry to disappoint but it’s far more down to earth. ‘Er indoors had an aunt who never stopped talking. I always thought [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week Three Hundred And Thirty-One
Monday Good morning, my happy readers. The heat wave is over and it is back to normal temperatures here in London, and it is actually forecast to rain this evening. Legohead is back in town [more…]
19th Century
One Hundred Years Ago This Very Day
The ‘Grim up north’ trope reminds of Northern England’s story of endless decline. In reality, the region produced immense wealth through the likes of textiles, steel, coal and shipbuilding. Influential industrialists’ fortunes rivalled those in [more…]