It’s that time of year again. The John Lewis advert is out, selection boxes are on the shelves in Tesco, and the NHS is heading for its annual winter crisis. By all accounts we are in for a bumper one this year – the worst crisis ever. So at least that’s something to look forward […]
Tis the season to be worried Read More »
BBC Radio 4 has become almost unbearable in the early mornings up to 9am. Thereafter, I have no idea how bearable it actually is these days, as I never listen to it. The radio in our bathroom is permanently tuned to Radio 4 and, since that is where it was tuned when my grandfather died
The invasion continues Read More »
The Prime Minister celebrating Diwali inside No. 10 Downing Street last week brought back fond memories of my own family. My beautiful and only granddaughter of three years old was filmed telling her father about the meaning of Diwali, the Hindu Festival of Light. It was incredibly sweet, and to some extent, it could be
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I am about to leave the UK for two weeks and I will be astonished if Liz has not been trussed up like a turkey and hurled out the front door of 10 Downing Street by the time I return. Then it is over to either Jeremy Hunt or Rishi Sunak to finish the job:
Who’s in charge in Number 10? Read More »
I was recently in Zabreg, the capital of Croatia, with my wife. My idea of a break is sitting in street bars drinking beer, but my wife likes to ‘do things’. She discovered that one of Zagreb’s most famous sons was Nikola Tesla and that there was a museum in his honour. She thought it
The museum of toxic masculinity Read More »
If the multicultural experiment in the UK were a clinical trial, it would surely have been stopped by now. Enoch Powell, in his infamous ‘rivers of blood’ speech in 1968, was slightly premature, arguably making an unhelpful intervention with a poor choice of words. It certainly saw opprobrium heaped upon him from all sides of
How’s the multicultural experiment going? Read More »
It is just one thing after another for the poor Ukrainians. As if they had not suffered enough over the years, having to endure visits from such luminaries as Richard Branson, multiple visits from Boris Johnson and now they have Liz Truss with them. How much more do they have to take? One person even
Anyone for nuclear war? Read More »
I found myself, as the House of Windsor crumbled around our late and recently departed Queen Elizabeth II, increasingly toying with the idea that perhaps republicanism is not such a bad idea after all. As a former member of HM armed forces and a person of conservative values, I have always felt that we should
The jury’s still out on King Charles III Read More »
In March 2021, writing about army cutbacks, I joked that far from being able to take back the Falklands now we would be unable to take back the Isle of Man. Turns out I was right. The ill-fated aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales, en route to join the US fleet for exercises, broke down
A new word entered the lexicon in the early days of the Covid scandal – ‘Covidiot’. Initially defined as those who endangered the lives of others, the term fast became applied to anyone who questioned the official Covid narrative. Anyone who dared suggest that we may have gone a teensy bit over the top with
Who are the Covidiots now? Read More »
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