Rants

Tories Chicken Out
Like many of you, I am a sufferer of Conservative estrangement syndrome. However, it was only yesterday that I ruled out voting for them at

Leave the Garrick Alone!
(Photograph: Spudgun67, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons) The Guardian, in its relentless and ever increasingly anachronistic crusade against something called the Patriarchy, has

Non-Statutory Guidance
How incredibly helpful of the Government, even in its dying days, to have nipped the trans/schools issue in the bud by providing ‘Non-Statutory Guidance for

A Taste of the Future
I’ve just been into Asda for a few bits and pieces. As usual, I chose to join a queue for a real checkout person (the

Sam Melia: The Gaslighting of Britain
Possibly you are already familiar with the case of Sam Melia – if so, please indulge my rant a moment. If not, you really need

The Perils of Recycling
Hands up who remembers being told not to waste paper and particularly, as a shopper, not to use environmentally unfriendly paper bags and old-fashioned paper

The Trouble With ‘Experts’
No matter what the topic is, there is now always an “expert”, and normally several as they do tend to pontificate in packs, to tell

New Model Army
The issue of conscription is back on the books again due to our likely involvement in a war with Russia and, who knows, we may

Getting Tough on Asylum Seekers
Comedian Leo Kearse suggested on GB News Headliners that we could advertise our NHS waiting lists more forcefully or the convoluted system for trying to make an appointment with a GP. However, that is unlikely to work given that GP waiting rooms are often full of immigrant families who must have a special NHS app. That is, one that works.