Où est le boeuf? Laissez-les manger cheval. (Where’s the beef? Let them eat horse.)
Above is Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun’s 1778 painting of Marie Antoinette of Austria, Queen of France. This Royal lady…
The crisis in our town and city centres: the solution.
British Gazette readers will know about some prominent closures of firms such as HMV. The reasons given are the growth…
Cold Comfort.
The above image was taken on the USCGC Eagle during a storm in the North Atlantic. As the former Secretary…
Chris Huhne: the fall.
The British Gazette takes no pleasure at Chris Huhne’s fall. In the past we have castigated this man for his…
The new London Hub Airport: Upper Heyford.
Above is an aerial photograph taken in 1994 of the airfield at Upper Heyford. Click on the image for full…
Narrower still and narrower shall thy budgets be set.
Our apologies to Arthur Christopher Benson, the English essayist, poet, author and the 28th Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge, the…
The arch-traitor Heath: The Evidence.
Above, the monument to the traitor in Salisbury Cathedral. We have received a request to supply some evidence of Heath’s…
Too late. Far too late. Time has run out.
Above is the unfortunate Ed Davey, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change who in reaction to the Cumbria…
Trans-European Railways PLC? Any investors?
In today’s Daily Telegraph, the excellent Christopher Booker effectively reveals that the £33 billion plus High Speed rail project is…
Rule Britannia, not Britannia.
Above is a most unusual photograph of double Olympic Gold Medallist, Miss Laura Trott, striking a pose as Britannia, the…