I read last week that Jamaica is to seek monetary reparations from the UK for its part in the historic slave trade, in addition to the £300 million in international aid it’s receiving from the UK. Fine. Let’s have this discussion out then. We’ll leave aside the fact that the…
Perhaps we’ll make up our minds one day. Our government intervenes militarily where the UN fears to tread/UN fails to carry out its obligations/UN fails to function due to the OIC voting block countries and their anti-western allies (delete as applicable) and the supposed righteous get out on the streets…
Three days ago, Bob Cole chose to end his life with dignity, with a smile on his face and listening to Beethoven’s Ode To Joy at Dignitas in Switzerland. Last year, he accompanied his wife to the same clinic to end her life. Every two weeks, another Brit has to…
Up to ten million civilian deaths in mainland Japan. U.S. military casualties of up to one million (the U.S. still issues Purple Hearts from its stock of 500,000 made in anticipation of a mainland invasion of Japan). 400,000 civilian deaths in Hokaido under Soviet invasion, following Soviet Union’s entry into…
It’s fairly obvious that those of us who oppose the EU (for political, not xenophobic reasons, before the tired old clichés are deployed) are likely to vote no in the upcoming EU referendum. But here’s why those who are passionate advocates of the EU should vote no too. Assuming those…
Clearly I’m missing something. I hear a lot of objection to the use of military drones and I don’t quite understand why. If people’s objections are based on incidents where civilians have been killed by drones, that is not an issue related to technology, but a moral objection. Civilians have…
Brief thoughts on Muse’s new album, Drones, after a few listens. Dead Inside – Alright. Not much more to say. Drill Sergeant – See start of Warheads from Extreme’s 1992 album III Sides to Every Story. Psycho – Another Muse glam beat track. Nice main riff. Kind of grown on…
Last night’s Question Time election special, which saw the leaders of the three main parliamentary parties face an extraordinarily intelligent audience (by Question Time standards) in Leeds gave Cameron the chance to pull out his prop, the note left in the Treasury by the outgoing Chief Secretary of the last…
The C4 docudrama UKIP: The First 100 Days, which aired this evening and dealt with the imagined first hundred days of a Ukip government was bizarre and muddled. It would be easy to point out that production of the programme was funded by the EU or to make reference to…
Eureka! Here’s an idea that could keep everyone happy. During the Cold War, NATO countries and the Warsaw Pact countries swapped spies over the Glienicker Bridge between Potsdam and West Berlin. I suggest we come to a similar arrangement whereby those who are clearly unhappy living in the West are…