Some quick, spur of the moment thoughts about unfolding events in the Balkans and the Lower Danube. I’m referring to Greece, of course, which is in Europe, kind of. Although you’d never know the Greeks were Europeans from the way they’re being treated by their European Union compatriots. This ‘ever closer union’ thing is brilliant, isn’t it? […]
Note: the image above is a mistake. The word ‘No’ should be inserted after ‘UK’ and before ‘Border’. So, last year saw the addition of about one Coventry’s worth of new citizens to the population of the UK; some 318,000 people. Our nation is grappling to accommodate and provide work and public services for one […]
Depending on your political point of view here is a fact which is either sobering, or which says something rather profound about the thinking of the British people: UKIP is now the 3rd largest party in British politics in terms of vote share. Under Proportional Representation UKIP would have 83 seats in Parliament: 39% of […]
This week I received a flyer from the Scottish Conservative candidate for Moray. His name is Douglas Ross and I know him personally. I respect Mr Ross as a politician; he has done great work for me in dealings I’ve had in the past with the breathtakingly inept and incompetent bureaucrats who wield most of the power […]
Carlos is Moraymint’s contrarian; in that sense he’s about to do me a big favour. Let’s be honest, I’ve devoted perhaps a little too much blog space (understatement) to explaining how and why I think we’re at one of history’s great ‘turning points’. I argue – and will probably continue to argue – that we’re living […]
Warning: Controversial Comment Today, the Daily Telegraph reported, ‘Horrifying animal slaughter in [a] halal abattoir’ in Yorkshire. If you have a strong stomach then click on the link at the bottom of this post to witness a little bit of hell on earth. Now, what I don’t understand is this. This year marks the 800th […]
Pour Yourself a Beer Pour yourself a beer or something before you start reading this post; it’s a ‘big yin’ (big one) as we say here in Scotland. What’s a Young Person Supposed to Do? This post is the first of two consecutive posts. The second post will address the question, ‘What’s a young person […]
Well, yes actually, and that’s the great thing about the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP). UKIP embraces crazy, in the non-clinical sense of the word, of course. UKIP embraces that crazy which is defined as ‘extremely enthusiastic’. This is just a quick post a propos nothing much at all really, other than that the minor political parties […]
What on earth has happened in France this week? One of the biggest issues faced by my children’s generation is this. How do the European political elites intend to govern our societies such that they balance having an enemy within with (to quote the British Labour Party) “rubbing [our] noses in diversity”? How do we deal with […]
My Fellow British Citizens Here’s the griff. A British citizen has been beheaded somewhere in the Middle East by a bunch of Islamic Fundamentalist nutjobs. Indeed, a fellow Brit has beheaded him as far we can tell. It makes you think the world is going mad, doesn’t it? But then again look at it this […]
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