Labour
Edstone Miligit
Edward Samuel Miliband is a Right Honourable not because he is honorable, rather the opposite in fact, neither is he right, he is a big lefty but he carries this title because he is a [more…]
Grift
Communism
We are running out of bread and circuses
It takes a lot to keep a population anaesthetised. Anaesthesia, as medical Puffins will attest, is a very tricky and demanding mistress. A dash too much potion here, or an insufficient soupçon of elixir there, [more…]
Media
Money down the plughole
Or we could call this money down the crapper or even money down the Gary Glitter. With the revelations coming out of USAID via DOGE’s extremely young whizz kids regarding the funding of all sorts [more…]
Politics
Of Squirrels, Unicorns, Electricity Storage & Flywheels, Part Two
As per Wiki : A flywheel is a mechanical device that uses the conservation of angular momentum to store rotational energy, a form of kinetic energy proportional to the product of its moment of inertia and the [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…]
18th Century
Reparations for Slavery
Free Gear Kier has said reparations are off the table only to find that the Commonwealth leaders have put it firmly on his table. The prediction has to be that this weakling will cave in [more…]
18th Century
Communism
Plugging away – the story of an FOI request
Although I do some project management stuff from time to time as part of my daily grind I am by no means an expert, but I do properly understand the basics. I was pondering the [more…]