Current Affairs


Sinking to Blaming the French for Our Decision

Posted on July 26, 2022

I was imagining the other day what it would be like to work in customs when the law about checking passports changed. When I used to go to France a fair bit, you just had to hold your passports up, barely braking as you did so. If there was a queue building, they hardly bothered even looking. Stamping Passports Now they must mess about stamping the passports one by one. If a family of five are going on holiday, what a ball ache that must ...

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Heatwaves, 1976 and Denis Howell

Posted on July 19, 2022

Over the last few days of record-breaking temperatures, much has been mentioned (mainly by older folks who think they’re hard) about the famed summer of 1976. I was eight at the time and the only thing I really remember is my mother doing some bizarre pagan like dance when it rained. Oh, and the smell of the rain on dry surfaces. Even when I smell that now, it takes me back to that summer. False Comparisons Comparing the summer of 1976 ...

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No Safe Pair of Hands in Tory Leadership Challenge!

Posted on July 12, 2022

One look at the the list of candidates in the Tory leadership race is enough to send a shiver down the spine. It is so awful it makes you wonder how this will all play out. Sunak and Truss The fact that Rishi Sunak is the favourite tells you all that needs knowing. Sunak made a fortune out the 2008 banking crash and has overseen the haemorrhaging of cash during the pandemic that is incalculable. I just do not understand what attributes ...

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Johnson’s Chaotic Exit is Almost Done

Posted on July 6, 2022

I have needed to write this down as it is scarcely believable. 1/ Boris Johnson was warned about the predatory sexual conduct of Chris Pincher. 2/ He went ahead and employed him anyway. 3/ Chris Pincher conducted himself in a way a sexual predator would. 4/ Boris Johnson sent his MP’s out to say he knew nothing of Chris Pinchers behaviour. 5/ It was proved in a letter from Simon McDonald, Johnson did know about Pinchers ...

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Churchill and the European Court For Human Rights

Posted on June 15, 2022

The British government is looking at the possibility of removing the UK as a member of the ECHR so it can deport people to Rwanda. The first thing people do not seem to understand is that the ECHR is nothing to do with the European Union. It was established after the atrocities of WWII by, amongst others, lawyers engaged by Winston Churchill. This was when the appalling human tragedy in Nazi Germany was still becoming fully understood. ...

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