If you don’t want to get your goose cooked Boris has been asking his colleagues to get some popularity from the electorate and so launched ‘Operation Red Meat ‘. The phrase was first used in 1911 which may say something about today’s Conservative Party. Hollywood […]

It’s my party and I’ll do what I want to   “Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party”. Seemingly this was a line to train typists in the 19th century. Well, there is no shortage of […]

Come back Nigel, all’s forgiven What’s happened to Brexit? Two years again you couldn’t open a newspaper or listen to the radio without hearing the damn word. Now: nothing. It has been killed off by Covid. But it is still there. How about all those dire warnings that Brexit would bring the country to […]

Sanity Clause Our politicians sometimes act like spoiled children so it is not surprising that Santa Claus also paid them a visit and gave them appropriate gifts, so we checked around to see what he had chosen for them. As well as a gift he […]

It gives one hope… And so another year draw to a close. Our second Christmas in a pandemic wave (I can’t remember what number we’re on). I sometimes still look at the news and catch myself thinking “that looks like a really good Science Horror […]

One law for them… one for us   When is a crime not a real crime? The obvious answer is: when you’re not caught. But let’s say you are doing something harmless like transporting the kids off to school and you are involved in one […]

What does the Old Bexley and Sidcup by-election result tell us? A bit like Boris Johnson who before Brexit allegedly wrote two speeches, one pro-Brexit and one against Brexit, I too had prepared two answers on the question of what the Old Bexley and Sidcup […]

Read all about it The relationship between politicians and the media is a bit like a what I call an ‘economic marriage’. Both sides can’t really stand the sight of each other, but the money situation makes it impossible to get divorced. If the family […]