Current Affairs/Political Archive

20 Sep 2016

The Politics of the Terminally Deluded; a Brexit Deal Referendum!

It seems that desperate ‘Bremainers’, including the leadership of the Liberal Democrats and some Labour MP’s, have a stratagem to attempt to reverse the will of the people of the United Kingdom to leave the EU. What
9 Jul 2016

Chilcot: 2.6 million Words of Foreplay Followed by Coitus Interruptus

Is Tony Blair a bumbling fool or a scheming knave? The answer is the latter for the vast majority of the UK who felt that the intelligence had been deliberately ‘sexed up’ in order to take Britain
4 Jul 2016

The perplexing question surrounding Tony Blair: How does he manage to sleep at night?

In an interview for the Daily Telegraph, Tony Blair made a case for EU exit discussions being conducted by those from the Remain camp. The interview occurred just a few days before the release of the Chilcot report. A couple of days
1 Jul 2016

Remain candidates included in the Tory leadership race? They’re having a laugh!

It should be a straightforward task for the government to enact the will of the British people after the recent EU in-out referendum. Of course there are those patrician politicians from the Remain side who think the
7 Jun 2016

David Cameron should either have been leader of the stay-in EU campaign or Prime Minister. He’s shown he can’t do both and maintain his integrity and party unity

The current lead-up to the EU referendum has to go down as distortedly one-sided in terms of the stay-in campaign getting their message across much more effectively with the Prime Minister’s help. It’s also been deeply divisive for the
13 Apr 2016

Does the UK Prime Minister know what a conflict of interest is, even after it’s bitten him on the bum?

Two issues have been starring in recent headlines, the Prime Minister’s late father’s offshore unit trust arrangements and the 9m pounds’ worth of brochures explaining the government’s viewpoint on the EU. Although sounding like rather disparate issues,
15 Mar 2016

Just like Joan Bakewell, my Aunt Fanny has some strange ideas about anorexia: thank goodness no one listens to her

  It could have been so different if my Aunt Fanny – a comely woman in her youth – had been an arts correspondent and broadcaster for the BBC in a period when there were so few women
29 Feb 2016

Upgrading the UK’s Nuclear Deterrent: Beware Rogue States and Terrorist Organisations becoming Rogue States

  There are many reasons offered for the search for extra-terrestrial life, advanced enough to communicate across the cosmos. However, it’s estimated that the stars able to support suitable planetary systems for life to have evolved, are
26 Feb 2016

The UK’s in-out EU referendum: It’s all about Democracy, Including the Problem and the Solution

It’s arguably taken over a thousand years for the UK to arrive at the democracy that we now have. We should be rightly proud and not be surprised that the UK is the destination of choice for
6 Dec 2015

Bombing Syria: Careful thought was required rather than stirring speeches

Robert E Lee was possibly the only man in history to have been offered an important command position by both sides in a major conflict. The major conflict was the American Civil war and he unhesitatingly chose, as