Does Donald Trump have a point?
Just now Donald Trump is competing for the Republican nomination of the upcoming American presidential election. As a tactic he has repeatedly told “home truths” that offend liberal political correctness. […]
News analysis
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 […]
Oldham West and Royton by-election prediction
Usually by-elections don’t matter. They make no real world difference to the parties in Westminster. And usually the government party lose out because voters are getting a free chance at […]
Russian SU-24 shot down
Here are some pertinent background facts: The Turks have previously shot down one Syrian jet and possibly one helicopter entering their airspace uninvited. The Russian air force has made previous […]
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 […]
European civilisation is doomed
Europe has liberal and tolerant societies with very high levels of human rights mainly because what had been a barbaric religion, Christianity, was defeated in the Reformation which swept through […]
Corbyn’s nutters
The Labour party is tearing itself apart, which is good news for Britain after all the poverty, misery and suffering they have brought to this country. So let’s look at […]
Our problem with steel
Great Britain is the cradle of the industrial revolution. So for a long time in history we were the world’s largest producers of steel. This was driven by a number […]
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 […]
Police waste their time and our money
Bahar Mustafa is a welfare and diversity officer at Goldsmiths, University of London, so some of what she tweets is deeply ironic and totally at odds with her job. Firstly she tweeted […]
Cameron’s speech
In office Cameron and Osborne are joined at the hip. And it is Osborne who is the master tactician dedicated to the destruction of the evil of socialism. This speech […]