I am NOT a celebrity: Get me out of here!
One hundred and five years ago today a son was born to two parents in a village called Golberdon a…
Year: 2011
The Euro: On course for disaster.
Above is the Preußen. She was a German steel-hulled five masted ship-rigged windjammer built in 1902 for the F. Laeisz…
Ken Clarke and those comments about rape.
Above is Nicolas Poussin’s, “The Rape of the Sabine Women” painted whilst the artist was in Rome between 1637-38. The…
The Sound of Silence.
A few days ago I heard, in all seriousness, a piece on the BBC about electric cars. The big issue…
Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know: Chris Huhne
Above (right) is Lady Caroline Lamb, best known for describing George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron as “Mad, Bad, and…
Cameron and Clegg: El afortunado y El desafortunado.
Today, Sunday 8th May, 2011 is the 66th anniversary of “Victory in Europe” Day, the day that signalled the defeat…
The Alternative Vote: Vote YES.
With four days to go, the British Gazette would urge those voters who have yet to make up their mind…
A Suspension of Belief.
Today the eyes of a large part of the nation were affixed on their TV screens watching the wedding of…
Woe, woe and thrice woe!
Above is the character, “Senna the Soothsayer” played by Jeanne Mockford in the BBC sit-com “Up Pompeii” which ran between…
The Carbon Tax: A poem by Professor Cliff Ollier.
Hurrah, Hurrah the Carbon Tax Just pay up and then relax. We’ll stop warming, have no fears, (Maybe take a…