This country desperately need workfare
Currently in Britain we have around a million NEETs (youths not in education, employment or training) which are a direct result of our education system failing to prepare these people […]
2011
Libya, the endgame
So Colonel Gaddafi has lost, it is just a matter of time to his departure day. Militarily the ground forces against him are singularly unimpressive and fire most of their […]
Legalise prostitution
It is pretty uncivilised that unliberated, Victorian, repressive and prudish legislation is still enforced in this country, whilst in more enlightened countries with the legacy of our legal code, like […]
Crass stupidity of union protest in London
Firstly they are against “cuts”. What alternatives are there for the government? Borrow even more money and throw it away in profligate spending like Gordon Brown did? How much debt […]
Petrol prices
The BBC is currently obsessing about petrol prices, they obviously see it as a way of having a go at George Osborne. So let’s look at what is behind this. […]
A great budget
The best budget, by a huge margin, for something like 14 years, and maybe much longer. A tour de force. With no manoeuvre room due to the immense economic hole […]
The NHS as an example of Labour mismanagement
The NHS consists of medical staff such as doctors, nurses, dentists, physiotherapists etc who look after their patients. It also requires managers who allocate resources. Being as this is a […]
Were Blair and Brown socialists?
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 […]
Don’t forget Bahrain, Yemen and Syria
In the West the media focus is on Libya because our forces are involved so that is where all the press assets are engaged. Meanwhile there are ongoing civil uprisings […]
Libya update
Thus far, militarily, this has been a perfect campaign. The alliance have acted in a measured and restrained manner to implement the UN resolution to the letter, they are implementing […]
Has there been a power shift in Russia?
Yesterday Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, in a typical piece of silly, misguided, macho posturing, said that the UN intervention in Libya was analogous to a “mediaeval call for crusades”. Just how […]
Shia or Sunni, who should the West back?
Islam is divided into two main denominations, Shia and Sunni, these are fundamentally doctrinally irreconcilable and have a very long history of not liking each other very much. Sunni are […]