Plucking the goose!
Above, a portrait of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, by Philippe de Champaigne (1655). Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Finance Minister to Louis XIV, once famously…
Year: 2024
Rattling the plutonium sabre – Again!
On 24 February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine in an escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War that started in 2014. The invasion…
Go on……. Make my day!
The Right Honourable Penny Mary Mordaunt, Lord President of the Council likes to portray herself as a bit of a…
Matching demand and supply!
Above, HM Prison Wormwood Scrubs. From the BBC website: “We’re looking back at what happened on this morning’s Sunday with…
Another sleepless night? This time it might be deliberate!
Sometimes a small act by a man can have dramatic consequences. The image above needs no explanation. On election nights…
We agree with Chris!!!!!!!
Above, Chris Mason, the BBC’s Political Editor. It was a toss-up: Do I go with the title above or “The…
The pendulum swings like the pendulum do! Really???????????????
Above, Robert Trelford McKenzie (11 September 1917 – 12 October 1981) was a Canadian professor of politics and sociology, and…
All Clacton’s a stage!
As an actor, Giles Watling the Member for Clacton (above) in the last parliament will know well the melancholy Jaques’s…
Waiting for a lady…………………………
As the world reacts to former President Trump’s criminal conviction (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-us-canada-69069142) the Daily Express has reported upon the former First…
No good outcome!
It is fairly obvious to a dispassionate observer that the trial of former President Donald Trump in New York was…