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I never got around to it

For a while now I’ve been thinking of drafting a piece on the West’s complicated and contradictory attempts, through the UN and otherwise, to advance the causes of human rights, oppressed minorities and – well, just the world of geo-politics. This is a distinctly fraught area of human [...]

August 12, 2014 // 0 Comments

“Go! Go! Go!” (as Murray Walker would say)

An elderly man of my acquaintance, bless him, holds strong political views. Let’s just say that, whilst they’re not quite out there to the right of Attila The Hun, sometimes I suspect that he’s still struggling to come to terms with the concept of democracy. In bald terms – his argument [...]

August 8, 2014 // 0 Comments

It’s okay for some

I hadn’t personally noticed it, but apparently ‘the thinking classes’ are up in arms about the Daily Mail’s coverage of David Cameron’s recent Cabinet re-shuffle – specifically the fact that he axed a number of men, supposedly in order to promote women in their places for the express [...]

July 17, 2014 // 0 Comments

Getting to the truth

Following in the wake of this week’s announcement by Home Secretary Teresa May that she is setting up an inquiry into the previous inquiry as to why 114 files sent to the Home Office by Tory MP Geoffrey Dickens in about 1990 on suspected child abuse and paedophilia activities by members of the [...]

July 10, 2014 // 0 Comments

The art of not helping yourself

Sometimes your public reputation precedes and defines you. For four decades now, no doubt fuelled by my willingness to believe the ever-more outlandish press stories published about him, Prince Charles has struck me as being a prat of the first order. Down the years a host of impressionists and [...]

June 30, 2014 // 0 Comments

From bad to worse?

Two posts in two days on Prime Minister David Cameron – I must be losing my marbles! It just seems to me that our beloved, rudderless, Leader has boxed himself into a corner on the question of the UK’s membership of the EU. Whether he’s doing this off his own bat, or being advised by juvenile [...]

June 26, 2014 // 0 Comments

Shurely Shome Mishtake?

Did anyone out there, like me, find something decidedly weird about Prime Minister David Cameron’s ‘apology’ for employing Andy Coulson at Number 10, following the guilty verdict reached against Coulson in the much-covered phone-hacking trial? As I saw it, it seemed to amount to: “I – and [...]

June 25, 2014 // 0 Comments

Fish in a barrel

Our esteemed former prime minister Tony Blair appeared on The Andrew Marr Show yesterday. His purpose seemed to be to claim that ‘the West’ had to act on the threat posed by the growing Isis phenomenon in Iraq. We had brought it all upon ourselves by failing to get rid of Assad in Syria. In [...]

June 16, 2014 // 0 Comments

Oh dear – my record’s got stuck again

Today, at the risk of boring regular readers, I must begin with my traditional opening statement of declared interest – I personally have no time at all for the political class. In fact, I’d go further and state I despise and distrust them on sight. When the news broke recently that Jeremy [...]

May 19, 2014 // 0 Comments

Let’s face it – making a hash of things is easy

There are strange parallels between the issues surrounding September’s referendum on independence and David Cameron’s supposed pledge that, if he is still Prime Minister, he will oversee an ‘In – Out’ referendum in 2017 on whether Britain should remain a member of the EU. If you allow for [...]

May 16, 2014 // 0 Comments

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