The British Empire and Ceylon
The British Empire was based on trade, not plunder, unlike many other empires. We arrived at places that had not invented the wheel and we left them with universities, hospitals […]
Foreign policy
Brexit. Democracy under threat
The above graph is taken from the Facts4EU website, a great reference if you want the truth, instead of the Bremoan propaganda of the BBC, the Financial Times and the […]
What does Brexit really mean?
You will be seeing a lot of discussion in the media at the moment about “Soft Brexit” and “Hard Brexit”. Please ignore it, this is just another attempt by the […]
World War 3 has started
Over the last few decades we have let more and more Muslims into Europe and they committed the occasional terrorist act, as Muslims do, but we still kept on letting […]
Turkey is an immense problem for the world
To understand what is going on in Turkey today you really have to know a bit of history. Without this knowledge you will have no understanding whatsoever. Modern Turkey is […]
The Balfour declaration as pure evil
The Balfour declaration of 1917, as we were taught at school, promised a homeland to the Jews, and eventually resulted in this happening. The only country in the world defined […]
Why democracy is evil
We in the West are brought up and brainwashed to think that democracy is the best, the only form of government. So good, in fact, that we have spend much […]
Why has Putin exited from Syria?
As this blog explained in October last year Putin was not being his cleverest when he intervened in Syria (click this highlighted text to see article). So it is hardly […]
Our political leaders fail us over Islamic State
ISIS have committed ONE terrorist attack in the West, in Paris, more than a year after we started bombing and killing them in the Middle East. Their professed aim has […]
Wahhabism is the real problem. Not ISIS
On Tuesday last week a Saudi court  ordered the execution (which in Saudi means beheading) of Ashraf Fayadh, who has curated art shows in Jeddah and at the Venice Biennale. […]
Corbyn is right about ISIS
On 13 November 2015, a series of coordinated terrorist attacks—consisting of mass shootings, suicide bombings, and hostage-taking—occurred in the French capital Paris and its northern suburb of Saint-Denis. 139 totally […]
Putin falls into the Syria trap
The conflict in Syria started in early 2011 as part of the Arab Spring. This blog started writing about events there in March that year. The situation was simple, a […]