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Time to Let The Sun Go Down for Good?
It was interesting listening and learning from a phone in show on Radio 5 Live this morning. It featured Gareth Thomas in an emotional live phone call where he revealed that a reporter had door stepped his parents to tell them he (Thomas) was HIV Positive. It also centred around England cricket hero, Ben Stokes, and The Sun newspaper deeming that the murder of his ...
How Brexit Took Me Back to 2001!
When I was watching the news last night, there were pictures of a Brexit rally that took me right back to Britain, the 2001 version. It was September, and I had taken my two kids down to a static caravan park in Swanage, Dorset. They would have been 3 and 5. When we parked up next to our luxury holiday home, the chap in the caravan next to us, introduced ...
Anti-Fascists & Mildred Fish-Harnack
I was reading some articles the other day about the 1930’s and the rise of fascism across Europe. The first one centred around anti-fascists in London who had put a banner up on the BBC building in September 1934. The banner was as a protest against the BBC. They were hosting aristocrat, Sir Oswald Moseley, and allowing him to promote a BUF (British Union of ...
From Liberal Conservative to Populist Right Winger!
I have been wondering lately why Boris Johnson has gone from Liberal Conservative to Populist. When Johnson was London Mayor, he didn’t care much for the anti-eu mob or people like Donald Trump. Or at least he claimed not to. That’s the problem with Johnson, he is a pathological liar, so it is hard to read him. Was he always a populist right-winger? Was he ...
Another Boring Day in Parliament!
My dear old dad said to me last week, “How come you haven’t been blogging about Johnson?” The truth is, it is near impossible to write anything in the morning then go to publish it in the evening. It will be regarded as out of touch. Everything is moving at such a pace that predictions cannot be made. Make any assumption that you know what is going on and ...