If I were inclined to be pessimistic my Sunday has been ruined. However, optimistically, my day couldn’t have been more politically satisfying. I usually look forward to watching Andrew Neil on the Sunday politics as […]
Punch and Judy Pay
So its official, IPSA have finalised the 10% pay rise for MPs. In a politically toxic environment of austerity where public sector pay rises are capped at 1%, this has obviously provoked much ire. Already […]
Strike it Stupid
“WE ARE READY FOR THE FIGHT, AND WE WILL, I BELIEVE, FIND ALLIES THROUGHOUT SOCIETY, AMONGST EVERYONE WHO CARES FOR FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY.” This call has gone out, and it seems Len McCluskey is finally […]
Me, the ‘Minority’
So I hear again today that one of the top concerns of the Green Party is to champion a more ‘representative’ parliament, and is going as far as campaigning for ‘joint tickets’, where a male […]
‘Chill, it’s only a few bad apples’
A French businessman decapitated and inscribed with Islamic phrases, Sunnis blowing up Shiites in Kuwait and Western tourists shot dead on holiday in Tunisia all in the same day; and yet this morning, I still […]
What is this ‘Relativist Fudge’?
It is my observation that one of the greatest problems with modern Liberal discourse…No, that is far too kind. The modern scourge, a pestilence decaying logical thought, a by-product of an over-tolerant society like toxins […]
Islam – “The Motherlode of Bad Ideas”?
Many of you may not be aware of the raging debate between the Liberal Left and the Democratic Libertarians in the U.S. over the issue of ISIS or more specifically, the degree to which Islam […]
The Long Road To Nowhere – British Foreign Policy
At first the total absence of Foreign Policy from the election confused me, whilst one expected the economy to dominate, I did at least expect some meaningful discussion on British Foreign Policy. Then it hit […]
On Treachery and Treason
Nothing perhaps indicates how endangered the concept of the nation state is, nor how unfashionable patriotism has become than the confused muddle that we have gotten ourselves into about the issue of those who travel […]
Glory Glory Tories
I was wrong, very wrong. Much like those on their deathbeds rallying briefly before the inevitable demise, I had believed that 1992 represented the final rally before the death prang of the Conservative Party as […]
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