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…]
Parliament
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week Three Hundred And Fourteen
Monday Good morning, my friends. Today is a bit different, it is foggy! I do not think I have reported it being foggy in London since I started writing this diary, but it is not [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week Three Hundred And Five
Monday Good morning, my friends. Back to the old routine, a trip down the chilly garden before my Felix. The Robber Reeves house rental saga got a bit worse over the weekend when it emerged [more…]
Communism
China Spies
A spy trial collapses The recent collapse of a high-profile China spy trial sparked significant controversy, raising questions about the government’s national security policies and the suitability of the country’s espionage laws. The case involved [more…]
Islam
Zarah Sultana. Avoid.
Appropriately born on Halloween 1993 in Lozells, Birmingham, to a Muslim family of Pakistani heritage, Zarah Sultana is one of four sisters, her grandfather having emigrated from Maipur in the 1960s. Sultana attended Holte School [more…]
Christianity
Pastoral Letter on Assisted Dying
On Sundays, the priest preaches a sermon about half-way through Mass. Depending on how good a speaker he is, this is an opportunity to pick up some insights on today’s gospel, or alternatively to drift [more…]
Health
A brief history of legislation on Assisted Dying at Westminster
Euthanasia, or ‘Assisted Dying’ as it’s now being called, is back in the news again as Kim Leadbeater MP, who came top of the ballot for Private Members’ Bills, has said she will introduce an [more…]
Conservatives
Always Worth Saying’s King’s Speech Review
Puffins visiting Londonistan may spot a carriage and horses containing a Controller wearing a Cap of Maintenance and armed, besides various other baubles, with a Sword of State. If so, they will have happened upon [more…]
Elections
Manifestos
With news about a trannyfesto doing the rounds, political manifestos spring to mind. These are taken so seriously by our misguided political parties you could be forgiven for thinking they are like the Ten Commandments [more…]