Politics

Lie Back and Think of Government.

March 14, 2011
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The Government becomes ever more inventive in getting Nanny’s message across. Now beer mats and beer glasses are to display the calorie count – will they have a different glass for each beer? Fast food chains and sandwich bars are to display calorie counts on menus – will Dirty Dick’s Diner have the means to [...]

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Jingo Bells.

March 10, 2011
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We don’t want to fight but by Jingo if we do We’ve got the ships, we’ve got the men, and we’ve got the money too; The euphemisms are being run up the flag pole, and the international armchair warmongers are gathering round the most popular – the ‘no-fly zone’. Now if a ‘no-fly zone’ actually [...]

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Your Country Needed You!

February 17, 2011
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Where were you? Yes You! In the space of barely a week, Cameron has announced that he is ‘sickened’ by the European Court of Human Rights ruling on the issue of prisoner’s votes, and ‘appalled’ by a subsequent ruling that sex offenders will have the right to appeal against their placement on the sex offenders [...]

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Killing The Sacred Cow

February 16, 2011

And so it ends, the National Compact first dreamt up in the dying days of the Second World War called the Welfare State. The Welfare State was always a ponzi scheme of gigantic proportions, that relied on the next round of investors paying out to the first batch of ‘investors’. The only difference between the [...]

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The ‘Scrambled Egg’ Brigade.

February 14, 2011

The Minister for Climate Change, a Canute figure forever muttering ‘Back dastardly warming’ to himself; The Under-Secretary for the Rubber Band Cupboard; The Chief Executive of the National Committee on the Numerical Sequence of Egg Cartons; how many times have you heard a man gloomily refer to himself as ‘the Sous-Chef’ when he has accomplished [...]

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Cry ‘God for Harry, England, and Saint George!

February 2, 2011

Harry Shindler is tough. Decanted onto the beaches of Anzio by a grateful British Government in 1944, he successfully dodged bullets – and landed a few in the right places – as he fought his way up the peninsula with the British Eighth Army. He was young, fit, and a hero. That was then. Today [...]

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Cheering, Not Jeering.

January 25, 2011

One of the sops offered to Sinn Féin as part of the ‘peace process’ by which they agreed to stop bombing innocent citizens as they went about their business was to agree that Gerry Adams could claim expenses for ‘representing the people of West Belfast’ whilst not actually taking up his seat in Parliament. Adams [...]

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