UK Commentators

"Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold" - W.B. Yeats. "We're doomed !" - Private Frazer. "Like scrolling through a decade's worth of Daily Mail editorials in 20 minutes" - TheLoonyFromCatford

Tuesday, July 02, 2013

Your Tax Money At Work - Catholic Priest Murdered By Syrian Opposition

Our Government's decision to send money and arms to these people is already bearing fruit. Reports that Father Francois Murad was publ...

Saturday, June 22, 2013

"measures which will make a practical difference to the situation on the ground in Syria"

Thus BBC radio news , toeing the Government line in most uncharacteristic fashion, on the decision to send arms to even up the balance of t...

Tuesday, April 09, 2013

We Shall Not Look Upon Her Like Again

Ken Livingstone summed her up well, although he had a lot more negative things to say about her : Ken Livingstone, Labour’s former London...

Friday, March 29, 2013

Underclass News

Those two sadly-departed organs of the State, the Coppersblog and Inspector Gadget, frequently opined that they spent too much police time o...

Are We Doomed?

On this most solemn Crucifixion day, let me share some sombre stats with you : Let me put that in writing : Gas up 168% in ten years ...

Thursday, March 21, 2013

Plan B - "Reinflate The Housing Bubble !"

George Osborne is the Son Of Brown : "George Osborne is going into the mortgage business. What could possibly go wrong? ...(the t...

Wednesday, March 20, 2013

The UK Left Are The Lapdogs Of The Capitalist Elite

The entire post-68 British "left" are paper tigers, running dogs of capitalism. No one's profits are threatened by the SWP ...

Sunday, March 03, 2013

"Haven't we all done things we regret when we were young?"

I don't know. For years the Peter Tatchell's of this world have been saying “don’t knock it til you’ve tried it”. It appears that...

Saturday, February 16, 2013

"Obama said he would strengthen the middle class and introduce immigration reform"

Thus BBC Radio Four on the State of the Union address. Given that "immigration reform" is Newspeak for "legalise the ille...

Monday, February 11, 2013

Some Start To Get It ...

Well, it only took between 400 and 1,200 deaths at a single hospital, but it's starting to get through : "When I asked people ...

Tuesday, February 05, 2013

"This is the last territorial claim I have to make in Europe"

Former life assurance salesman turned Tory A-lister Ivan Massow on the Tory Taliban (© Alan Duncan): “Those same shire people didn’t ...

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

May Contain Traces Of Horse (And Pig)

Fair play to the Irish. The UK state supports a vast array of bodies and busybodies designed to monitor and nag about food standards, inspec...

Sunday, January 13, 2013

Death Of A Salesman

Colour me cynical, but could this story : Shopkeepers and stallholders said yesterday that they believed the two victims were homeless. ...

Tuesday, January 08, 2013

What's wrong with the left blogs ?

Is it just me, or are the Left blogs terribly stale these days ? You'd think that the Coalition would energise them no end - it's ce...

Sunday, January 06, 2013

The Beginning Of The End (Of The Journey)

Well, tomorrow sees the end of Child Benefit for those bloated plutocrats with a household income of £50,000 and a stay at home mother . T...

Saturday, January 05, 2013

Benefits Rise By 1%, Food Prices Rise By 5% ?

Laban, last week at CiF: "It was a bad wheat harvest in the West (although I'm told East Anglia did better then usual - they re...

"Open borders make the eventual abolition of the welfare state imaginable"

Thanks to blogger BenSix in the comments for this , from libertarian economist Bryan Caplan . (Graphs from Alesi...

Thursday, January 03, 2013

More On Universal Credit - Stable Door Edition

When I wrote about the Universal Credit rules for the self-employed , which will do such damage to the self-employed handyman or the single ...

Monday, December 24, 2012

Shepherds Arise

A carol from Sussex, collected from the Copper family and sung here by Oak. Sorry about the pagan video, but the guy's got taste in m...

Saturday, December 22, 2012

"What's Wrong With The Left?" Part 296

Andy Newman at Socialist Unity is worried : "I think there is another underlying problem, in writing about what the left is doing,...

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