Man who “posed no threat” unlawfully killed by PC Simon Harwood
The police in Britain are a deeply flawed institution in urgent need of fundamental reform as this case demonstrates and as I have written on here before. Certainly if Ian […]
Europe rescues Portugal. Ha ha ha
So the rich countries in the Europe are once again riding to the rescue of a country that has behaved very badly. Portugal’s problems are structural, their economy is uncompetitive […]
The Economist proposes a better voting system
I have explained already here why the proposed Alternative Vote (AV) voting system is a bad idea. In fact even its chief proponent, Nick Clegg, described it as a […]
Osama bin Laden
Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden was just as much “made in America” as a Chevrolet Corvette is. He was a product of the proxy war that America ran […]
Syria. 90 unarmed peaceful protestors shot dead on Friday.
Even Obama is talking tough: “This outrageous use of violence to quell protests must come to an end now”. But just as the Saudis sent troops to support the nasty regime […]
Mission creep in Libya
Mission creep seems to be inevitable in any military venture, the Americans sent a few military advisers to Vietnam and ended up in a long and bloody war, we went […]
The disability gravy train
Professor Steven Hawking was Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge for thirty years yet he was almost completely paralysed with motor neurone disease. Sir Frank Williams is […]
Balls, cut off
You may have noticed how Ed Balls has become invisible recently, he has shut up and gone into hiding. And here’s why. Ed was a member of the last, totally […]
Disaster! Gordon Brown wants to run the IMF
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is: “an organization of 187 countries, working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, […]
The RAFs toys and MoD ineptitude
The Royal Air Force needs two main types of combat aircraft. Firstly those that shoot down enemy aircraft and secondly those that attack things on the ground. With the last […]
The destruction of the marine ecosystem
About 70% of the earth’s surface is covered with water and with the energy of the sun this environment should be teeming with life. That it isn’t is purely down […]
963,000 NEETs
So the latest figures are out and we have nearly a million young people Not in Education Employment or Training. Yet we have well over a million recent immigrants from […]