Opinion

Eastern Orthodox monastery in Greece

As I have said repeatedly on here the financial “rescue” of Greece a year ago looks like some sort of joke and was inevitably going to end in tears. It […]

MP for Morley and Outwood, West Yorkshire

I was amazed this morning to hear Ed Balls on the Today programme complaining about the Government financial measures that come into force today. So let’s be very clear about […]

Britain's awful education system

Britain is the land of Eton and Harrow of Oxford and Cambridge of Professor Stephen Hawking, Sir James Dyson, Stephen Fry and Sir Richard Branson so what could be wrong? […]

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This morning on the Radio 4 Today programme Ed Milliband was questioned with some thoroughness by Evan Davis and you could almost hear the collective jaws of the nation hitting […]

Gordon Brown and Tony Blair.

Some people try and make out that New Labour was not socialist, mainly because they didn’t nationalise everything in sight. But the reality is that this is just about the […]

Very silly website

So some of the usual suspects from the left (who have damaged Britain so much in the past) have created this activist website that wants to return to the profligacy […]

The dead hand of the state

It has been proven time and time again that the state is not very good at owning things or running things and that the market does it much better. This […]

We Brits don't like foreigners

23% of us think that immigration is the country’s biggest problem, 59% of us think that there are too many immigrants, about 70% think the government is doing a bad […]

Far, far worse than any banker

Now some envious souls might not like it that bankers get paid a lot of money, but they only receive a fraction of what they earn for their employers and […]