The road to Hell……… Paved with good intentions!
It is always a pleasure to come across someone who manages to elucidate their knowledge on a particular subject with…
Year: 2024
Please members of the congregation, can we have some more? Like ten times more?
Above is The Right Reverend, Rosemarie Mallett, Bishop of Croydon. Bishop Mallett (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosemarie_Mallett) has reacted to the proposal to allocate…
Proudly Pumped up Pompous Posturing!!!!!!
Oh Dear! Political Reality appears to be outstripping Political Fiction! Back in the 1980s, “Yes Minister” was the hit political…
Risk aversion.
Generally speaking, as one gets older one becomes more risk averse. I remember as a lad doing all manner of…
From each according to the number of bedrooms, to each according to the number of occupiers!
Above, Karl Marx. The disturbing case of Mr and Mrs Saunders receipt of North Northamptonshire Council’s letter (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13079637/Our-council-tried-force-sell-200-000-home-make-room-asylum-seekers-Elderly-couples-horror-strongly-worded-letter-lands-doorstep.html) suggesting that…
NO to Anonymity & YES to Age Verification.
Above, a 1972 photograph of the delightful Miss Gabrielle Drake now the widow, Mrs Louis de Wet taken from the…
A Rural Revolt: Giving a dog a bad name….. and hanging him!
Charles Dickens had a “social conscience” and wrote of the times in which he lived. The enduring appeal of Dickens…
The Cybermen cometh???????????
The prospect of the return to conscription (compulsory military service) contained in the remarks of General Sir Patrick Saunders that…
Sometimes it pays to listen to the state propaganda machine.
Warning: This blog-post is one of those BG blog-posts that in the minds of many cybersurfers confirms that I have…
The biggest fool in Christendom? We’ll have to wait and see…….
King James I of England, VI of Scotland and I of Ireland was given the sobriquet, the ‘wisest fool in…