The Great British Sewage Swindle

Posted on July 21, 2025

Nothing says “we mean business” like a government press release dripping with righteous fury at water companies… followed immediately by doing absolutely nothing to change the rotten system they helped create. Ministers are once again donning their hi-vis vests of performative outrage, promising fines, accountability, and tough talk about “cracking down” on those naughty water firms who—oopsie!—keep pumping raw sewage into our ...

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Vineyards? In Hampshire? I Thought This Was Cattle and Chalkstream Country

Posted on July 2, 2025

I’ll be honest—I know next to nothing about wine. My knowledge of reds and whites pretty much stops at the supermarket offers and which one gives me the worst headache. But since moving to the Test Valley some 10 years ago, I’ve seen more vineyards than chalkstreams, and that got me wondering: why on earth are we suddenly surrounded by grapevines? Soil, Sunshine and a Bit of Luck Turns out, there’s a bit of a quiet wine revolution ...

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Palestine Flags at Glastonbury? Please, Do Calm Down.

Posted on June 29, 2025

As predictably as someone losing their tent on day one, the annual outrage machine has fired into action—this time over the sight of Palestinian flags waving in the dust and dry cider haze of Glastonbury. Apparently, the mere presence of a flag is now cause for national alarm. And not just from the usual suspects on GB News who believe “woke” is a communist plot. No, even mainstream commentators have taken time out from defending oil ...

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Genocide’s Fine — So Long as the Right People Do It

Posted on June 24, 2025

If you’ve ever wondered how many Palestinian children have to die before Britain’s so-called “opposition” party says something, the answer is apparently all of them. But only if they’re being killed by a country we call an “ally.” Yes, while Gaza turns to ash, and entire families are wiped off the map before they even get a chance to flee, Keir Starmer and his Labour Party are doing… precisely nothing. Actually, scratch that ...

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Tony Blair Was the Villain — Until Everyone Else Started Copying Him

Posted on June 23, 2025

It’s been over twenty years since Britain marched into Iraq, led by Tony Blair’s messianic gleam and a now legendary claim that Saddam Hussein could launch WMDs before your kettle finished boiling. The fallout — chaos, death, lies, and the slow-motion collapse of a region — turned Blair into the go-to bogeyman of British foreign policy. He’s been called a liar, a warmonger, and a war criminal — by the left, the centre-right, the ...

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