19th Century
The Continental System
One of the Corsican Corporal’s big things was what was known as the Continental System. This was him forcing all the countries he controlled and as many others as possible not to do business with [more…]
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Conservatives
Labour’s bad boys – Part 12 Keith Vaz
This series of articles was supposed to be a lot of short scribblings. We now come to Keith Vaz who has so much previous that target has been swept aside. Keith looks to me like [more…]
Conservatives
Labour’s bad boys – Part 11 Claudia Webbe
Well she is obviously not a boy though Spanner would be hard pressed to make a decision but let us use “boys” generically. Claudia, a professional race baiter of whom there are many in politics, [more…]
Conservatives
Labour’s bad boys – Part 10 The Expenses Scandal
In 2009 the Daily Telegraph unleashed the parliamentary expenses scandal. This affected many MPs of all parties probably just about equally across the House. We will only concern ourselves with the Labour miscreants of whom [more…]
Computing
Our Future
No doubt you are all heartily cheesed off hearing about AI and how it is going to change our lives. Today I want to concentrate on two differing visions. One is from Bill F Gates, [more…]
20th Century
Labour’s bad boys – Part 9 Peter Mandelson
Peter Benjamin Mandelson, these days better known as Baron Mandelson, has had to resign 3 times from official positions. A devious snake of a man one hopes he is finally out of our sight. He [more…]
America
Starmer the Unready
Much to the world’s delight, well who doesn’t like to laugh at the discomfort of other countries, we are highly embarrassed by the state of our Navy. This has all come about because of our [more…]
20th Century
Labour’s bad boys – Part 8 Ron Davies
In 1998 poor old Ron Davies was held to ridicule. In 1983 he was elected to represent Caerphilly in the House of Shame. He was appointed Secretary of State for Wales in Satan Blair’s cabinet [more…]
Human Interest
The very venal Sarah Ferguson
The former Duchess of Pork appears frequently in the Epstein files and usually on the earhole as the vernacular has it. She has coughed to receiving about $15,000 from Epstein, others say she has had [more…]