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 […]
Ebola
As a result of the Thalidomide disaster new drugs have to go through incredibly thorough testing before they are licensed for general use. This includes three phases of human trials […]
Redistribution of wealth is wrong
There are some people who by enterprise, risk taking, investment and hard work generate wealth. There are others who are lazy, feckless and uneducated and therefore poor. It is socialist […]
Conservative party defections to UKIP
This is so unimportant that I wasn’t going to write about it. But yesterday at conference I was grabbed by a Sun journalist about it, hence my picture in the […]
Why the Conservatives will win the 2015 General Election
If you average out the opinion polls on voting intention the Labour Party are consistently around 3% ahead of the Conservative party. Not only that, the Labour Party have two […]
How Red UKIP can succeed
In the UK our parliamentary system uses a first past the post system that makes life incredibly difficult for a third party. This is good because it leads to strong […]
Ed Miliband memes
Ed Miliband was forced on the Labour party members and MPs, against their wishes, by the trade unions, who obviously thought that he would jump when they told him to. […]
Who can defeat the Islamic State?
The Islamic state is a country bigger than Great Britain, straddling Syria and Iraq, it is rich with over a $billion in the bank and over a $million rolling in […]
USA attack Syria. What the BBC isn’t telling you
USS Arleigh Burke launches Tomahawk Land Attack Missiles today. The attack. Firstly lets get a couple of matters out of the way. In an earlier article I pointed out how […]
Some good political memes
The Conservative party tries a bit to create and spread memes on the social media. But they could do a whole lot better. So I thought I would collect a […]
Environmental plastic is a worse threat to human survival than global warming is
If you are taken in by the mass media you would think that the surface of the planet you live on is heating up rapidly and that you are in […]
Hong Kong Vs Cuba. Capitalism Vs Socialism.
Let’s get started with a quick recap: Capitalism. Under this system an organisation can only survive in the market by looking after the customer. By delivering goods or services of […]