We need a cyber command
If I went to my local newsagents and inserted some hard core pornography pictures into the children’s magazines that are for sale there I would pretty soon find myself talking […]
Bruce Everiss
Nuclear proliferation and Iran
So Iran seems to be trying very hard to make a nuclear bomb and you would wonder why they would go to so much effort and expense. Could it be […]
How and why the welfare state is abused
If people know they can steal with zero chance of getting caught then mostly they will. We see this with video games for PCs where the theft rate, by illicit […]
It is silly season
Now is the time of year when MPs take their extended summer breaks and when, traditionally, the major source of news shuts down. Newspapers usually fill up their pages with […]
UK media ownership proposals
This whole phone hacking saga has brought the ownership, and therefore the political power, of UK media to the fore, and quite rightly so. For far too long far too […]
Cameron supreme in parliament
Yesterday was a virtuoso display from David Cameron in the House of Commons. Before it Ed Milliband had been calling for Cameron to resign, by the end of the day […]
Is freemasonry at the heart of the current scandals?
According to Freemasonry Watch Rupert Murdoch is a freemason. This would not surprise as freemasonry works by recruiting people in positions of power so it follows that journalists and media […]
David Cameron and Andy Coulson
Some people seem to be drawing false inferences that the Prime Minister is in some way implicit in the News International story because he had employed an ex editor of […]
The Euro dominoes are lining up nicely
Over the last week the biggest story amongst the chattering classes was about Rupert Murdoch, his organisation, the people in it and sundry other actors in the unfolding drama. Meanwhile […]
In Syria today
Friday is the Islamic holy day, so people are not at work. They go to the mosques to pray then they demonstrate against the brutal dictatorship of the Assad family. […]
Britain is broke and it is getting worse. More cuts needed
As regular readers will know the public or state sector of our economy is parasitic on the private sector, where all the wealth is generated. Not only that, the state […]
What the News International scandal really means
In 2003/4 the police raided the offices of two private detectives, John Boyall and Steve Whittamore, who had been selling illegally gained information to journalists. Much of this information came […]