The EU is utterly awful. The EU is amazingly good
The European Union is in the news a great deal these days, so it is time to bring some order to proceedings. Overall my views are very ambiguous. My wife […]
News analysis
How come Ed Miliband still has his job?
Looking at the raw data of opinion polls is very interesting. YouGov are especially impressive. They tell us that LibDem support has collapsed, that UKIP has about twice their support […]
Why the CSA inquiry will not uncover the truth
The United Kingdom child sexual abuse panel inquiry is an overarching investigation into a series of cases in the United Kingdom concerning allegations of historic child sex abuse within government […]
Ebola update
Sometimes, with a long drawn out event, we get news fatigue and stop paying attention, even though the calamity is getting worse and worse. So it seems with Ebola. The […]
Ed Balls doesn’t understand basic economics
In my industry, which is video games, large numbers of technical staff (who UK taxpayers had paid to educate) left to work in Canada and pay their taxes there. This […]
Ebola science. Facts even worse than thought
This is the third Ebola article on this blog. The first, Ebola, gave an informed overview of the disease based on proven scientific facts. Some people criticised this, they preferred […]
Internet Trolls are great
I have been using social media avidly since before Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin existed. I was one of the first to join all three when they became available in the […]
Lord Freud got it right and Miliband was playing politics
Ed Miliband is in huge trouble, he is deeply unpopular within the country and even within his own party there are many calls for him to go. So he is […]
Lord Freud is a hero
Lord Freud is is an unpaid Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Work and Pensions. He is a great grandson of Sigmund Freud. He had a very successful career as a […]
It is probably time to really worry about Ebola
Let’s look at the facts: This disease is currently killing about 71% of those who catch it. There is no cure, no efficacious treatment. It has an incubation period of […]
UKIP “policies”
Proper political parties have policies, ideas that they want to implement to make Britain a better place. These policies are thoroughly thought through and properly costed. They then come under […]
Kobane, explained
The wonders of the Sykes Picot agreement is that it divided the Ottoman Empire up like a cake, with no concern about who was living where. This was bad news […]