Maybe I am being unkind but this is too important not to say. Many pensioners voted for the Union in the referendum because they were afraid for their pensions, that was the big one. There were other reasons but that was the big one. Stoked up by people like Murphy, the same pensioners are voting Labour because now Murphy and…
Category: This makes me mad
History is not a thing of the past
In 1707 the landed Gentry in Scotland latched on to a get richer, quicker project called the Darien Scheme. Turned out this was a scam and the greedy baskets lost around 25% of the county’s wealth. That bit many of us know. But here’s the rub. There’s a farmer in the lowlands scraping a living from potatoes. There’s a shepherd in…
Just makes you think?
All we seem to hear about these days is the threat of terrorism. Our lives have been turned upside down as the authorities wage war on the terrorist threat. The measures taken to combat this threat are all around us. In London you struggle to find a bin in a public area. There are no bins in the London Underground…
Globalisation – a modern scourge
I generally enjoy The Big Questions on Sunday morning. Last Sunday they touched on immigration – always a hot topic. Specifically, mass immigration that gives oxygen to UKIP. I rarely find myself on the same side as Peter Hitchin but who can argue that it is a matter of historical fact that New Labour set out to create mass immigration…