Politics
Banana Republic UK
I was forced through conversation today to contrast my experience of the U.K. from 48 years ago with the present day, as we spoke the differences were crystallised confirming the abyss into which the U.K. [more…]
Theft
Conservatives
Tory Bad Boys – the Intro
Conventional wisdom used to be that Labour’s scandals always involved money and Tory scandals were always of a sexual nature. The last few decades have blown that out of the water. All sides, including those [more…]
Conservatives
Labour’s bad boys – Part 25 The Outro
Well we reach the end of our squint at the misdemeanours of our elected representatives of the socialist persuasion. This is far from an exhaustive list or there would have been hundreds of names. I [more…]
Conservatives
Labour’s bad boys – Part 24 Eric Joyce
Stickypedia’s first line says it all really. Eric Stuart Joyce b. 1960 is a British politician, former military officer and convicted child sex offender. The only thing missing is his party affiliation and of course [more…]
Labour
Miatta Fahnbulleh
Four men are in custody. £44 million is missing. And the woman who oversaw it all just got promoted to Energy Secretary. This is not politics. This is not incompetence. This is institutional decay wearing [more…]
Conservatives
Labour’s bad boys – Part 23 Satan Blair
Our first Prime Minister, or First Lord of the Treasury, was Robert Walpole in the earlyish 1700s. His motto was “every man has his price and I know it bar a few” and some of [more…]
Politics
Labour’s bad boys – Part 22 Cap’n Bob
Ian Robert Maxwell (NHRN) was born 1923 in Czechoslovakia as Ján Ludvík Hyman Binyamin Hoch. His birthplace is now Solotvyno in Ukraine. I believe it was Private Eye who christened him Cap’n Bob presumably based [more…]
Conservatives
Labour’s bad boys – Part 21 Dan Norris
Dan Norris was the MP for Wansdyke from 1997 to 2010. In 2021 he was elected as Mayor of the West of England until his arrest in April 2025. In the 2024 GE he defeated [more…]
Conservatives
Labour’s bad boys – Part 20 Rushanara Ali
Another import from the Sylhet District of Bangladesh. We’ve already had an article on Tulip Siddiq and an honourable mention for Baroness Uddin in the expenses scandal, now we turn our attention to Rushanara Ali. [more…]