Authoritarianism
Are we the new Nazis?
I used to wallow, absolutely wallow, in self righteousness. The reason was simple. There was no chance we could ever sink so low as to be like those dreadful Nazis were. We, as a nation, [more…]
Statism
Cooking
A View From (Quite Close To) The Greenhouse; It’s All A Conspiracy…..Innit?
Winter arrives in the Northern backwaters, with a short lived but fierce reminder that the weather, when it chooses, can be the boss of us all. Cue, then, the assorted fanatics, grifters, bought and paid [more…]
Politics
Of Squirrels, Unicorns, Electricity Storage & Flywheels, Part One
For my sins, I’ve been trying to make sense of the UK Government’s ambition to de-carbonise the domestic electric grid by 2030. Because the wind doesn’t always blow and the sun doesn’t always shine, a [more…]
Authoritarianism
Keith extracts the yellow liquid
Dishonesty runs deep in this gummint. Keith is your classic bully and a coward and may even be an android so devoid of human characteristics is he. They are all liars but that is only [more…]
Communism
The politics of spite
In politics the left has a long history of hatred which engenders spite and greed which leads to envy. No government before the Starmer administration has had these values in such a malevolent way. They [more…]
Communism
The illusion of choice: Democracy as the greatest show on earth
Democracy has nothing to do with freedom. Democracy is a soft variant of communism, and rarely in the history of ideas has it been taken for anything else. Hans-Hermann Hoppe As individual citizens, as voters and taxpayers we have been so deeply, so [more…]
Authoritarianism
Drunk on Power
Keith has been taking steps, rather large ones, as he attempts to implement the UK equivalent of the former German Democratic Republic in this once green and pleasant land. Much of what follows comes under [more…]
History
The Birth of the Angry Young Man
In 1956 the play Look Back in Anger was first staged in Britain. Written by John Osborne, it was the story of Jimmy Porter – who came to symbolise a new force in postwar Britain – the [more…]
Authoritarianism
Only Parties in the Centre win
Now we have had a few weeks of Keith doing his best to send us down the plughole without realising that people didn’t vote for him, they voted against NikNak let’s recap election strategies, So [more…]