Elections
Runners and riders
Runners and riders is a phrase much loved by the other place, you know, the one founded by Fatty Fawkes. In this case there is some justification for its use as we delve into the [more…]
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Conservatives
Labour’s bad boys – Part 13 Neil Coyle
Neil Alan John Coyle, most often known as Neil Coyle, has been the Labour MP for Bermondsey and Old Southwark since 2015. He is apparently a bit of a motormouth, regularly flinging abuse about. His [more…]
America
Ordo ab Chao
Ordo ab Chao is a bit of yer actual Latin meaning order out of chaos, it is most often associated with the rolled up trouser leg brigade aka the Freemasons and specifically the much maligned, [more…]
Politics
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…]
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…]