The New Conservative

Roger Watson

Lamenting lost Bobbies

I have lamented elsewhere the woeful state of our police in the United Kingdom, in which I reflected on the almost total lack of Bobbies or Robertas on the beat (and no, I don’t mean a la David Lammy). Instead they have been replaced by obese and ill dressed ‘community officers’, usually swigging cans of […]

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Why Rwanda?

I am at a loss to understand why Home Secretary Priti Patel is planning to send illegal immigrants arriving in the UK to Rwanda. Why not send them to Scotland? After all Nicola Sturgeon wants Scotland to have control over its own immigration policies and wants to welcome migrants to help solve Scotland’s population problem

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Decadent Disney

Disney now wants fifty percent of its characters in future cartoon features to be LGBTQwerty, although I’m not sure how hard they would have to try. I wondered what was behind a rash of spoof Disney characters on social media, the most hilarious of which I thought was ‘Cinderfella’ (in fact it’s a genuine musical

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All shuttle, no cock

I was asking my 13 year old grandson about his week at school and he told me that he had been playing badminton, and really enjoyed it. That was the cue for me to expound on my own exploits on the badminton court, offer him some advice (actually, my only advice about badminton is that

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Is there life on Mars?

Nobody knows if there is or ever was life on Mars. If there is, it is unlikely to look like us; if there was, it would have been a pretty pointless existence – according to scientists, the planet’s atmosphere would make it impossible to hold a conversation. Apparently, sound would travel much more slowly and,

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