Trying to fathom the Tory strategy over Brexit is not dissimilar to trying to work out where you were and where you were going in one of London's infamous smogs in years past in which, sometimes, you were unable to see your hand in front of your face. I...
The obsession with the birthrates of the poor has a grim history, and is used by the rich to transfer blame.
When a major study was published last month, showing that the global population is likely to peak then crash much sooner than most scientists had assumed, I naïvely imagined that people...
We are living in hideously awful, godless and godforsaken, times, yet, as a human being, I have a deep need of something more than mere survival. Every creature on earth is engaged with survival, there's no mystery involved in having to eat drink, sleep, shit and look after ourselves...
Dear Dr Letwin, I was a remain voter last week but recognise that we have to now move on and make the best of ,what is on the face of it, an awful situation. As you put together your team I wonder whether you have thought of including those...
Ellsberg versus Milliband and Rowlatt
On Being Banned From Speaking At Glastonbury.
Daniel Ellsberg recently died. He was not afraid. When the government was lying to the people, he knew his duty and be damned with the consequences. Watch the video on you tube* – it’s suggested he could be imprisoned...
In Asda tonight, I saw shelves as bare as pre-lockdown. All the things required for village folk to survive if the roads were cut off by ice and snow were gone.Â
Yes, us village folk might need a few things in case we can’t get our cars to the main...
I’m English, which means I have European blood and believe that my country ‘belongs’ in Europe. And I’m interested in our history. It is a matter of record that for millennia Europeans have continually fought each other, culminating in two devastating world wars. There’s a lot wrong about the...
The ridicule across the land is reflected perfectly in one clip by Matt Lucas/
https://twitter.com/WoodyHRT/status/1259580030142820354?s=20
OR
https://twitter.com/1kilroywashere/status/1259820584575422466?s=20
Penny Lane
Life is incredible, a unique gift of a vast and mysterious universe.
Life is not a commodity to be used and abused, taken for granted and treated as if it is expendable.
The whole Earth is an amazing ecosystem, located in the sweet spot, the Goldilocks, habitable, zone, of our solar...
Mark Field's attack on this female protester is now widespread in the media. But two other things need to be discussed.
First, would he have been so quick to act if it was a male protester? Also, what was he doing cheating on his wife by climbing between Liz Truss'...
