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Danger to Kenya’s Democracy

24th January 2023 Going Postal 2936 Comments

21 August 2022 Westerners, the outgoing president (Uhuru Kenyatta), and former opposition leader (Raila Odinga) wish to force a barmy government in which the pursuit of citizen wellbeing is halted in favour of pursuing undefined [more…]

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Keeping It in The Families

28th June 2022 Always Worth Saying 3392 Comments

Your humble author and Imelda Marcos have been in the same place at the same time only once. Thirty years ago the trade winds had tempted a much younger me to a dusty road beside [more…]

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Not Just a Walk in the Park

24th November 2021 SharpieType301 3752 Comments

It has been a challenging couple of years for us all, and I suspect that our trials and tribulations are a long way from over. Thus, as the autumn temperatures drop away to winter’s chills, [more…]

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Zombie Nation

5th November 2020 Going Postal 3725 Comments

Britain is no longer great, it has not been for my entire life. I was born just days after the dawn of the Blair horror years in 1997, a year that marked the official end [more…]

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Freedom Lost?

4th December 2019 James Dalton 3595 Comments

I left UKIP in spirit over two years ago. Formally I left in January 2018.  I had joined in 2015 specifically to help with the fight to save our democracy and our freedoms and to [more…]

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Book Review: A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles by Thomas Sowell – Part 2

17th October 2019 The Black Swan 3785 Comments

Published by Quill, an imprint of William Morrow & Co. 1988 paperback edition (first published 1987) ISBN 0-688-07951-2 In the previous part of this review and discussion, we looked at Part I of Thomas Sowell’s [more…]

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Placard-waving and Marching to Exit

1st April 2019 Going Postal 4526 Comments

The undoing of Brexit has been incremental so that it has been difficult to pin down any one point at which to say “Stop!” We may be reaching the end of this Brexit saga to [more…]

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Democracy 101

30th June 2018 Going Postal 1502 Comments

I’ve been thinking. The Referendum result was a one-off, a gaggle of disparate groups that came together as a citizen army to win what the Remainers thought was an unwinnable fight.  And we won! The [more…]

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Dorothy

28th June 2016 Jwp 1 Comment

Dorothy is 92. She is a gentle soul. She has never hurt a fly in her entire life. It is now forty years since she lost her beloved Arthur. They had been together for 25 [more…]

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