Category: Politics

Tesco is the biggest of the UK’s supermarket chains by a long way, and besides its big superstores both in town centres and outside, it also runs stores at Esso petrol stations and has...

This morning they were talking on the Jon Gaunt show about the issue of black boys and the problems they face, and present, in British schools. The whole thing was touched off by Trevor...

The Independent is reporting today that the Government intends to establish “prestigious” new boarding schools for troubled teenagers as part of plans to renovate run-down inner-city areas. A senior government advisor says that “at...

The most recent edition of the Spectator (a British political magazine, edited by the Tory MP Boris Johnson) protests against the one-sided extradition agreement passed in 2003. In this case, it’s three bankers who’ve...

I’ve put this entry under the Politics header as I’ve got no intention of dedicating a whole category (not that it would use up much space) to the saga of Prince Charles’ allegedly impending...

With that flying pig poster barely out of people’s minds, it seems that someone else has made the mistake of “crossing” a certain ethno-religious community. The mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, got into a...

A few depressing news stories today leave me wondering for how long this country will still be worth living in. This morning, they were discussing on the Jon Gaunt show a proposal to limit...

Last week Labour issued a poster with the heads of Michael Howard and Oliver Letwin (in case nobody knew or cared, they’re Jewish) superimposed on winged pigs, next to the slogan “The day the...

Has anyone seen the Labour Party’s new election poster, with its pictures of two flying pigs, with the faces of Michael Howard and his shadow chancellor (i.e. opposition economic spokesman) Oliver Letwin superimposed on...

I am expecting this to be a long entry. The papers today have been full of reports of the commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the Nazi camp in southern...

I got this report off an email list I subscribe to; this is really the sort of thing which makes me angry – a family is being split up because the husband’s asylum claim...

Much as I thoroughly detest the Tories and everything they stand for, I have to admire the recent move (so far only in the Daily Telegraph, a noted Tory paper) towards calling for better...

A few days ago I posted an entry on Yusuf al-Qaradawi, whose meeting with the mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, and subsequent defence of it, has produced an awful lot of controversy. I reject...

I was rather sickened to read that Mark Thatcher got a suspended sentence and a fine (yes, a six-figure one, but all the same …) for involvement in trying to start off a military...

George Monbiot has a piece in today’s Guardian (which may shortly appear at his website) regarding the Great Skye Toll Bridge Rip-off in which a bridge was built linking mainland Scotland with the Isle...

Yes, he’s gone. Good riddance to bad rubbish.

Every so often I come across something that reminds me of exactly why the left in certain countries don’t quite get enough support to get enough votes to actually win an election, rather than...

There is an interesting blog piece on the election in Ukraine here which gives some information on the criminal past of the so-called winner Victor Yanukovich: Yanukovych has always seemed perfectly fitted for this...