BREXIT: Putting the pieces back together again.
The news that Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai is following in the footsteps of former Pakistani president Benazir Bhutto and has…
Month: August 2017
Burning bras. Burning burquas next?
Above Senator Pauline Hanson of Queensland and the contretemps in the Australian Senate. It is a truism of politics that…
Busy Going Nowhere!
Today’s title paraphrases the song “We’re Busy Doing Nothing” sung by Bing Crosby, William Bendix and Sir Cedric Hardwicke, in…
You 'ain’t seen nuffin yet!
Aunty Beeb is reporting what was always going to be an obvious fallout from the Korean crisis. GOTO: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-40897398 IF…
The Gathering Storm: A game of chess – with nuclear weapons.
Above, the 1853 oil on canvas “The Gathering Storm” by Anton Melbye. GOTO: https://fineartamerica.com/featured/the-gathering-storm-anton-melbye.html The statement by the regime in…
God help us.
Above, this You Tube video clip published yesterday was filmed during a meeting in Bedminster, New Jersey. Commenting on maintaining…
"There are no votes in prisons."
Above, HM Prison, Dartmoor. Following the riots at Strangeways prison, Manchester, in 1990, the Tory government set up an inquiry…
“The Sage of Twickenham”: The “Grand Old Man” of 21st Century British Politics?
The Rt. Hon. William Ewart Gladstone, PC, FRS, FSS that great Liberal Statesman, four times Prime Minister, four times Chancellor…
Not such a gay day in Cromer then!
Above, the controversial NT film narrated by Stephen Fry. Felbrigg Hall is a 17th-century English country house lying outside the…
Les cent jours de Brexit: Might history be repeating itself?
Above, Europe after the Congress of Vienna. One hundred and three years ago today, the British Empire declared war on…