Brexit… The Modern Perils of Burke’s Bristol Speech 07/04/201908/04/2019 Update: This article has been re-published in Country Squire Magazine under the title "Let them Eat Cake". After the referendum and the General Election which followed it, both of the…
Brexit… The Post-Brexit Tory Doom 28/03/2019 In 1957, the newly appointed Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan, wrote a note to Michael Fraser, the director of the Conservative Research Department. “I am always hearing about the Middle Classes.…
Brexit… Signals of Contempt 21/03/201921/03/2019 Right. That's it. I've had enough. What follows may well turn into Jonathan Pie-type expletive-riddled rant. I make no apologies to those sensitive flowers who might read this article and…
Brexit… Theresa May’s Great Divide 13/02/2019 In the early part of 2019, it would appear that Theresa May (without any apparent effort) has effectively sundered the Conservative Party into two irreconcilable groups. The first group is…
Corruption… The Post-Modernist Final Solution 21/08/201823/01/2019 Most of us are mystified by the current course of events. There seem to be so many contradictions in politics and elsewhere. In fact, many contradictions seem to have become…
Brexit… Lemmings in the Lords 06/05/2018 In the bleak tundra of the far north of Canada, Scandinavia and Russia, live a number of species of rodents which are very closely related to our more familiar voles.…
Beyond Brexit… There is no Plan! Where is the Plan? 28/11/2016 One of the more persistent memes since the referendum has been the regular claim that the government has no plan as to how it intends to negotiate our exit from…
Balkans… The cost of EU expansion to UK taxpayers. 25/04/2016 1.0 - Preamble It is well known that the EU is constantly seeking to expand its boundaries beyond the original confines of Western Europe and into former Soviet Bloc eastern…
Brexit… Lies, Damned Lies and Friends of the Earth 31/03/2016 You would have thought, wouldn't you, that the environmental groups would be able to get their act together and all sing from the same hymn sheet. Like this one from…
Brexit… How safe, secure and stable is the EU? 14/03/2016 Regardless of whether we vote to Leave or Remain in the European Union, there are many factors which make it impossible to predict outcomes for the UK. These have not…
