Flooding, was it deliberate or incompetence?
The problem of flooding has been around for years and years. Why now has it become a major problem?
Over the decades there has been...
Trains in Britain
What is BR, I shall use this term as a collective term for this article, thinking of by raising, probably the already highest rail...
David Bowie dies
David Bowie or to give him his real name, David Robert Jones, born in Brixton in 1947, he shares his birthday with Elvis Presley,...
Livingstone’s suspension is a joke
Ken Livingstone has refused to say sorry for mentioning Hitler in his now infamous radio interview with Vanessa Feltz. Good for him. He has...
Leave Prince George Alone
I'm no fan of the royal family, but the British Council boss who attacked 3-year-old Prince George for his life of privilege was way...
Wogan was Eurovisionās Saviour
You can turn as many sacred cows as you like into corned beef hash, but when it comes to criticising the late great Sir...
Will the Chilcot report put Blair in prison?
And so it will finally come to pass. The long-awaited Chilcot inquiry into the war crimes of Tony Blair - sorry, I mean the...
Brexit – confused or what?
WATCHING the news at the weekend I was left somewhat confused and bemused by the array of politicians from the PM downwards who all...
Name and shame dirty restaurants
Urban myths about servings of rats and dog meat aside, I always thought that takeaways were a reasonably safe eating option.
Sure, some kebab meat...
Sweet ending for āGay Cakeā row
SOMETIMES, the law is not an ass. Thankfully, judges upheld a ruling that the Christian owners of Ashers Bakery in Northern Ireland discriminated against...
Oh what a surprise for the BBC
Some three and a half years and approximately £10million later, the final version of many drafts of Dame Janet Smith“s review of the Incredible...
Three cheers for defeat
I'm over the moon that England lost against the Netherlands on Tuesday night. It was a much needed reality check after the thrilling victory...
Take me to your leader
THIS is the supposed phrase somebody or something from outer space would utter after landing on earth and meeting its first human being.
If that...
Murdoch’s Power Wedding
And finally, I see that sleaze-peddling billionaire newspaper baron Rupert Murdoch recently got hitched to the Texan model Jerry Hall. This is the family...